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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk 22
    Last Military Serial:WZ873 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0907
    Last Civil Registration:N873WZ
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Chipmunk 22 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Stephen C. Jones, Wadsworth, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a Chipmunk 22.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WZ873.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-BBNE (DHC-1 CHIPMUNK 22, C1/0907).

    5 January 1982

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX873WZ (CHIPMUNK T.10 MK-22, C1-0907) issued.

    June 1987


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Clearwater Air Park, Clearwater FL

    13 April 2004

    To Ace Aeromotive Inc, Miami, FL with new c/r N873WZ.

    To Saint Petersburg Clearwater International Airport, Saint Petersburg, FL.
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    20 February 2020

    To Ace Aeromotive Inc, Miami, FL keeping c/r N873WZ.

    5 April 2022

    To Montcalm Aviation Llc, Coral, MI keeping c/r N873WZ.

    4 July 2023

    To Stephen C. Jones, Wadsworth, IL keeping c/r N873WZ.

    25 July 2023


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: RAF WZ873 at AirVenture 2023, Oshkosh, WI

    6 September 2024


    Photographer: G.R.Dennis Price
    Notes: At Grass Roots Fly-In at Brodhead, Wisconsin
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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