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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk T.10
    Last Military Serial:WP895 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0765
    Last Civil Registration:N2247
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.10 s...
    Latest Owner or Location:John A. Albright, Richmond, IN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Chipmunk T.10.

    1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WP895.

    12 July 1960

    Written off.

    Circa 1960

    New serial number assigned: 7650M RAF

    Transferred to 2 AEF.
    As a Ground Instruction airframe.

    From 29 April 1966 to 20 October 1969

    To Hants and Sussex Aviation Ltd, Portsmouth Airport, Hampshire with new c/r G-ATTS.

    30 April 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX2247 (DHC-1 CHIPMUNK, C1-0765) issued.

    19 June 1997

    To Ernest R. Streifthau, Germantown, OH with new c/r N2247.

    16 July 2009

    To John A. Albright, Richmond, IN keeping c/r N2247.

    January 2018


    Photographer: John Albright / Facebook
    Notes: Cylinders are back from overhaul shop and engine should be reassembled by mid March. Hopefully flying again this summer!

    15 January 2018

    To John A. Albright, Richmond, IN keeping c/r N2247.

    Contracted to Bishop Air Service, Madison, IN for work on the airframe.

    2 January 2024

    Restoration started.
    Being restored by Bishop.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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