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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-104 Dove/Devon
    Latest Model:Devon C.2
    Last Military Serial:VP955 RAF
    Construction Number:04201
    Last Civil Registration:G-DVON
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Devon C.2 sn VP955 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Calcutt, Swindon, UK

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    Dates

    Event

    1948

    Constructed as a Dove 8.

    From 1948 to 1948

    Civil registration G-BLPD reserved.
    Registration G-BLPD reserved but not taken up.

    August 1948

    Redesignated as Devon C.2.

    25 August 1948

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n VP955.

    By 1982

    Transferred to 207 SQN, RAF Northolt.

    26 October 1984

    To Colin Lionel Thatcher, Trustee of:, Kimbolton, Huntingdon with new c/r G-DVON (DH104 DOVE 8, 04201).

    By 1987

    Based with Staverton Airport, Gloucestershire.

    15 August 1987


    Photographer: Rudy Visser
    Notes: VP955 in flight over Diest, Belgium, piloted by Mike Lanng and Lionel Thatcher

    15 August 1987


    Photographer: Rudy Visser
    Notes: Over Diest, Belgium

    By 1994

    Based with Old Sarum Airfield, Wiltshire, UK.

    14 July 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Day

    29 May 1996

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-DVON expired.

    To Little Rissington, Gloucestershire.

    By 2015

    To Calcutt, Swindon, UK.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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