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    Airframe Family: Arrow Active
    Latest Model:Active 2
    Construction Number:2
    Last Civil Registration:G-ABVE
    Compressed ID:Arrow Active 2 cn 2 cr G-ABVE
    Latest Owner or Location:The Real Aeroplane Company, Breighton Airfield, Breighton, Yorkshire - East, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1932

    Constructed as an Active 2.

    19 March 1932

    To Arrow Aircraft Ltd with new c/r G-ABVE.

    1 December 1946

    Civil registration, G-ABVE, cancelled.
    By the UK Secretary of State.

    2 January 1958

    To Norman Herbert Jones with new c/r G-ABVE.

    1970


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: Circa 1970 photo at Old Warden

    26 March 1972


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Arrow Active 2 seen at Old Warden, Bedfordshire in the Spring of 1972

    6 April 1976

    To Benjamin Knitwear Ltd keeping c/r G-ABVE.

    26 April 1978

    To Lewis John Benjamin keeping c/r G-ABVE.

    From 17 February 1981 to 8 July 2002

    To John Desmond Penrose keeping c/r G-ABVE.

    8 July 2002

    To Robert Arthur Fleming, Moor Cottage, Stainburn, Otley keeping c/r G-ABVE.

    To The Real Aeroplane Company, Breighton Airfield, Breighton, Yorkshire-East, England.
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    21 August 2011


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 2011 photo at Breighton in the UK

    28 June 2024


    Photographer: Andrew Shaw
    Notes: Seen departing Old Warden
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     Terry Fletcher
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