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    Airframe Family: Handley Page Herald
    Latest Model:HPR-7-214 Dart Herald
    Construction Number:185
    Last Civil Registration:G-ASVO
    Compressed ID:Handley Page HPR-7-214 cn 185 cr G-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Morayvia Sci-Tech Experience Project, RAF Kinloss, Kinloss, Moray, Scotland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HPR-7-214.

    July 1964

    To Handley Page Ltd with new c/r G-8-3.

    2 July 1964

    First flight.

    13 August 1964

    Assigned civil registration: G-ASVO (Handley Page HPR-7 Herald 214, 185)

    14 October 1964

    To SADIA with new c/r PP-SDG.

    From 9 March 1973 to 14 January 1977

    To British Midland Airways Limited, Castle Donington, Derby with new c/r G-ASVO.

    30 April 1975


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Aberdeen Airport in Scotland, whilst on lease to Air Anglia

    3 July 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Herald 214 of British Midland Airways at London Heathrow in the Summer of 1976.

    14 January 1977

    To British Air Ferries keeping c/r G-ASVO.

    16 April 1977


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Southend Airport

    Circa 1990


    Photographer: Andrew William Breeden
    Notes: Birmingham UK

    7 April 1993

    To British World Airlines keeping c/r G-ASVO.

    22 November 1993

    To Channel Express (Dart Group) keeping c/r G-ASVO.

    8 April 1997

    Crashed.
    Summary: The airframe was written off. The accident occurred at Bournemouth International Airport (BOH) (United Kingdom) while taxiing. Narrative: Taxied into floodlight and suffered extensive damage to port wing. The aircraft was withdrawn from use and broken up.
    For a complete description of the event read the Aviation Safety Network Report.

    22 July 2010


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Front section in Channel Airways c/s stored at the Highland Aviation Museum, Inverness, Scotland, UK

    To Inverness Dalcross, Dalcross Industrial Estate, Highland, Scotland.
    Forward Fuselage.
    View the Location Dossier

    Circa March 2017

    To Morayvia Sci-Tech Experience Project, RAF Kinloss, Kinloss, Moray, Scotland.
    View the Location Dossier
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    Aeroplane Monthly by Kelsey Publishing Group
    Internet Sources
     Aviation Safety Network
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    Peter Nicholson
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