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    Airframe Family: Avro 652 Anson
    Latest Model:Anson C.19-2
    Construction Number:1212
    Last Civil Registration:G-AGPG
    Compressed ID:Avro Anson C.19-2 cn 1212 cr G-AGPG...
    Latest Owner or Location:Avro Heritage Museum, Woodford Airport, Woodford, Cheshire East, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as an Anson C.19-2.

    From 15 June 1945 to 11 July 1961

    To A. V. Roe and Co. Ltd, Middleton, Manchester with new c/r G-AGPG.

    21 July 1951


    Photographer: via Tony Clarke
    Notes: At RAF Hendon

    From 13 July 1961 to 24 July 1961

    To Skyways Coach Air Ltd, London keeping c/r G-AGPG.

    From 25 July 1961 to 18 October 1967

    To Eric Rylands Ltd, Lympne Airport, Kent keeping c/r G-AGPG.

    From 20 October 1967 to 1 January 1970

    To Ecko Electronics Ltd, Southenbd-On-Sea, Essex keeping c/r G-AGPG.
    Used for testing weather radar equipment as supplied for the prototype Concorde and for demonstrating many other types of airborne equipment.

    26 January 1968

    First flight.
    Flown Southend after conversion for Ekco Electronics by Aviation Traders (Engineering) Limited - fitted with the nose radome from predecessor G-ALIH.

    From 2 January 1970 to 24 October 1975

    To Pye Telecommunications Ltd, Southend-On-Sea keeping c/r G-AGPG.
    Pye Telecommunications absorbed Ecko Electronics.

    To Southend Historic Aircraft Museum, RAF Rochford, Southend-On-Sea, Essex, England.
    On retirement presented to the museum.
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    To Hooton Park Trust, Hooton, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester, England.
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    14 May 1974


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Avro Anson in markings of Ekco Avionics as displayed at the now defunct Historic Aircraft Museum at Southend in 1974.

    5 December 2010


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2010 photo at Hooton Park, Cheshire, UK

    13 July 2013


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: At Manchester International Airport

    To Avro Heritage Museum, Woodford Airport, Woodford, Cheshire East, England.
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