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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-112 Venom
    Latest Model:Venom FB.4
    Last Military Serial:J-1799 SwiAF
    Construction Number:969
    Last Civil Registration:N502DM
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Venom FB.4 sn J-1799 S...
    Latest Owner or Location:Classic Flyers Museum, Tauranga Airport, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, North Island

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Venom FB.54.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-1799.

    Converted to a Venom FB.4.

    Transferred to Dubendorf AB.

    5 July 1984

    Ferry flight.
    Flown from Dubendorf AB, to Duxford.

    13 July 1984

    To Aces High Limited, Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Surrey with new c/r G-BLIC (DH112 VENOM FB54, J1799).

    7 June 1985

    Civil registration, G-BLIC, cancelled.
    Exported to the USA.

    7 June 1985

    To Warplanes Inc/Dean Martin, Burlington, VT with new c/r N502DM.

    January 1986

    To Maintenance One, Essex Junction, VT keeping c/r N502DM.

    29 December 1988


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA

    By 1990

    To unknown owner with c/r N502DM.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Klamath Falls, OR.

    By 1992

    To unknown owner.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Visalia, CA.

    From July 1992 to By 2008

    To Rural Aviation Ltd/Flightwatch, Ardmore with new c/r ZK-VNM {2}.

    To Rural Aviation (1963) Ltd, Manukau keeping c/r ZK-VNM {2}.

    18 November 1992

    Civil registration, N502DM, cancelled.
    Exported to New Zealand.

    18 November 1992

    To unknown owner with c/r N502DM.
    Sale reported to a new owner in South Burlington, VT.

    Transported by ship.
    Moved to New Zealand.

    23 January 1993

    First post-reassembly Flight.
    Flown at Auckland-Ardmore.

    1 June 1995


    Photographer: allan clegg

    Markings Applied: J-1799
    Painted in an over-all red colour scheme.

    Based at Classic Flyers Museum, Tauranga Airport, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, North Island.
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    23 October 2010


    Photographer: David Paull
    Notes: At Ardmore Airport, NZ
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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