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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Last Military Serial:G-150 GhAF
    Construction Number:C1-0251
    Last Civil Registration:N48250
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada DHC-1 sn G-150...
    Latest Owner or Location:Colonial Flying Corps Museum, New Garden Airport, Toughkenamon, Pennsylvania

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    Dates

    Event

    1951

    Constructed as a DHC-1 by de Havilland Canada at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    From 11 January 1951 to 14 November 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WD308.


    Photographer: Tony Fowler
    Notes: Taken at RAF Tangmere 1955,the first aircraft I ever flew in. (friend in cockpit,not me)

    Circa 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Ghana Air Force with s/n G-150.

    New construction number, B/F/135, assigned to the airframe.

    20 August 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX48250 (DHC-1, DH8F-135) issued.

    17 November 1989

    To Colonial Flying Corps Museum Inc, Tough Kenamon, PA with new c/r N48250.

    Markings Applied: H-B

    To Colonial Flying Corps Museum, New Garden Airport, Toughkenamon, PA.
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    28 April 2012


    Photographer: Massey Aerodrome FlickR
    Notes: At Massey Aerodrome, Maryland

    5 March 2018

    Civil registration, N48250, cancelled.

    December 2019


    Photographer: Raymond Cuypers
    Notes: Chipmunk storage - noted at Antwerp Airport in Belgium
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