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    Airframe Family: Percival P-28/P-29/P-30/P-31/P-34/P-46 Proctor
    Latest Model:Proctor I
    Construction Number:K.253
    Last Civil Registration:G-AHDI
    Compressed ID:Percival Proctor I cn K.253 cr G-AH...
    Latest Owner or Location:Moorabbin Air Museum, Moorabbin, Melbourne, Victoria

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Proctor I.

    26 February 1946

    To Newman Aircraft, Hatfield with new c/r G-AHDI.

    From 2 November 1948 to 1 June 1951

    To Stanley Caliendi, Hatfield keeping c/r G-AHDI.

    Circa August 1951

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-AUC.

    1 January 1965

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    At Adelaide Parafield.

    June 1965


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Proctor 1 VH-AUC flew into Parafield in January 1963 for a routine CofA inspection but failed the DCA glue adhesion tests. When it was donated to the Moorabbin Air Museum, a team from the West Beach Aviation Group moved it from Parafield in June 1965, towed behind my Ford Zephyr. This Proctor is now displayed at the renamed Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin Airport, painted as silver RAAF A75.1.

    June 1965


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall

    The story of how this airframe got to be preserved is told at :-http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Percival percent 20Proctor percent 20VH-AUC percent 20preservation percent 2065.htm.

    To Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin, Melbourne, Victoria.
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    Markings Applied: A75-1
    Painted to represent A75-1 - was totally destroyed when it crashed near Chiltern, Vic on which 23rd May 1958.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-AHDI (PROCTOR 1, K253).

    To Moorabbin Air Museum, Moorabbin, Melbourne, Victoria.
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     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
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     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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