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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-112 Venom
    Latest Model:DH-112 Sea Venom
    Last Military Serial:J-1758 SwiAF
    Construction Number:928
    Last Civil Registration:G-BLSD
    Compressed ID:de Havilland DH-112 sn J-1758 SwiAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Grove Business Park, Wantage, Oxfordshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DH-112.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-1758.

    16 July 1982


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork
    Notes: This Swiss AF D.H Venom FB.54, J-1758 is seen at Emmen AB in 1982

    From 20 May 1985 to 5 June 1996

    To Aces High Ltd with new c/r G-BLSD.

    14 April 1988

    Civil registration, N203DM, cancelled.

    22 April 1988

    To Aces High Ltd, North Weald, Epping keeping c/r G-BLSD.

    5 June 1996

    Civil registration, G-BLSD, cancelled.

    1997

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    Based at Grove Technology Park, Wantage, Oxfordshire, England.
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    23 July 2013


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: FFV DH112 Venom FB54 G-BLSD on display at the site of the old RAF Grove airfield. The aircraft wears false RAF markings as this is a former Swiss AF machine

    To Grove Business Park, Wantage, Oxfordshire, England.
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    18 February 2022


    Photographer: Jamie Horner
    Notes: Metal stand on which the aircraft was blown over during Storm Eunice, causing heavy damage to the aircraft.
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