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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk T.10
    Last Military Serial:WP973 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0839
    Last Civil Registration:G-BCPU
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Chipmunk T.10 sn WP973...
    Latest Owner or Location:G-BCPU Group

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a Chipmunk T.10 by de Havilland at Broughton, Chester.

    27 February 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WP973.

    From 24 October 1974 to 21 September 2013

    To Peter Waller with new c/r G-BCPU (DHC-1 CHIPMUNK 22, C1/0839).

    2 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 LAA Rally at Sywell UK

    21 September 2013

    To Paul Green, Temple, Marlow keeping c/r G-BCPU.

    Based at Wycombe Air Park, Booker-Lane End, Buckinghamshire/Bucks, England.
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    13 January 2015

    Markings Applied: WP973
    Royal Air Force.

    July 2016


    Photographer: Rob Evans / Facebook
    Notes: At the Royal Air International Tattoo at Fairford in the UK

    6 June 2021


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At the Chipmunk 75th Anniversary fly-in, Old Warden UK

    1 December 2022

    To G-BCPU Group keeping c/r G-BCPU.
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    United Kingdom Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
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     Terry Fletcher
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