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    Airframe Family: Percival EP9 Prospector
    Latest Model:E.P.9 Skyspread
    Last Military Serial:XM819 AAC
    Construction Number:39
    Last Civil Registration:N747JC
    Compressed ID:Percival E.P.9 sn XM819 AAC cn 39 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Warbirds of The World Air Museum, Los Lunas, NM

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an E.P.9.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Army Air Corps with s/n XM819.

    20 October 1961

    To Steels Aviation Ltd, Luslgate Airport, Bristol with new c/r G-ARTV.

    15 February 1962

    To unknown owner with c/r D-ELSA.

    From 30 January 1968 to 22 September 1970

    To Lealie Hornett, Seaford, Sussex with new c/r G-ARTV.
    Exported to Belgium.

    N747JC had a more chequered career and was one of two evaluated by the British Army Air Corps with serial XM819. It was once owned in the late 1960s by a gang of international smugglers who found it the ideal way to smuggle stolen furs and counterfeit Swiss francs between England and Belgium. Although the criminals were apprehended in 1969, the EP-9 was finally offered for sale in Belgium in 1972. After three years of pleasure flying in England, the aircraft was shipped to the United States where it was stored in a Wisconsin barn until 1999.

    1971


    Photographer: Raymond de Clercq
    Notes: At Turweston in the UK

    From By 12 February 1973 to 1 February 1977

    To Harold Best Devereux with new c/r G-ARTV.
    Exported to USA.

    24 October 1988

    To Jan H. Christie, Holmen, WI with new c/r N747JC.

    19 July 2000

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX747JC (EP 9, 39) issued.

    28 January 2009

    To Jan H. Christie, Holmen, WI keeping c/r N747JC.

    24 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Oshkosh,Wisconsin

    11 June 2013

    Civil registration, N747JC, cancelled.

    19 August 2015

    To Robert G. Massie, Whitewater, WI with new c/r N747JC.

    Based at La Crosse Municipal Airport (LSE), Onalaska, WI.
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    17 July 2018

    To Warbirds of The World Air Museum, Los Lunas, NM keeping c/r N747JC.
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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