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    Airframe Family: Hawker Hart / Audax / Demon / Hardy / Hind / Osprey
    Latest Model:Afghan Hind
    Last Military Serial:K4672 AfAF
    Construction Number:41H-81899
    Last Civil Registration:BAPC-82
    Compressed ID:Hawker Afghan Hind sn K4672 AfAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Air Force Museum, Midland, Cosford, Shropshire, England

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    Event

    Constructed as an Afghan Hind.
    Delivered in May 1937 - one of eight Hawker Hind Light Bomber aircraft ordered by the newly established Royal Afghan Air Force.By Dec 1937 The eight Hinds were delivered, crated, to the airfield at Kabul by road; they had been shipped, with their armament, in October 1937 on the SS Durenda; arriving in Kabul in December 1937

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n K4672.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Afghan Air Force with s/n K4672.

    To British Aircraft Preservation Council with new c/r BAPC-82.

    20 January 1968

    Placed on display with Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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    Circa November 1983


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In the RAF museum in Hendon, UK.

    19 August 2006


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Cosford, UK

    28 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo on display at RAF Museum, Cosford

    To Royal Air Force Museum, Midland, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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