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    Airframe Family: Percival Q-4/Q-6 Petrel
    Latest Model:Q-6
    Last Military Serial:X9407 RAF
    Construction Number:Q21
    Last Civil Registration:G-AFFD
    Compressed ID:Percival Q-6 sn X9407 RAF cn Q21 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Rex Herbert Ford, Trustee of:, G-Affd Restoration Group, Seething, Norwich

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Q-6.

    1938

    To Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary of State for Air with new c/r G-AFFD.

    After July 1939

    To National Blood Transfusion Transport Service keeping c/r G-AFFD.

    April 1940

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n X9407.

    April 1940

    Transferred to No. 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit, Ringway (now Manchester Airport).

    To The Yorkshire Aeroplane Club with new c/r G-AIEY.

    By 1951

    To The Yorkshire Aeroplane Club with new c/r G-AFFD.

    21 July 1951


    Photographer: via Tony Clarke
    Notes: At RAF Hendon

    April 1952

    To Walter Instruments, Redhill keeping c/r G-AFFD.

    Used as an instructional airframe at Chelsea College of Aeronautical Engineering at Redhill.

    From 17 December 1984 to 7 May 1999

    To Barry Durbin Greenwood keeping c/r G-AFFD.

    From 19 May 1999 to 14 March 2012

    To Barry Durbin Greenwood keeping c/r G-AFFD.

    18 January 2013

    To Rex Herbert Ford, Trustee of:, G-Affd Restoration Group, Seething, Norwich keeping c/r G-AFFD.

    Being restored to airworthiness by Fordaire Ltd.

    9 April 2016


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: At Seething
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