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    Airframe Family: Handley Page Herald
    Latest Model:HPR-7-200 Dart Herald
    Construction Number:176
    Last Civil Registration:G-AVPN
    Compressed ID:Handley Page HPR-7-200 cn 176 cr G-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington Airport, York, Yorkshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a HPR-7-200.

    1 May 1964

    To Bavaria with new c/r D-BIBI.

    22 June 1967

    To Handley Page Leasing with new c/r G-AVPN.

    21 July 1967

    Leased to Itavia.

    2 July 1970

    To Itavia with new c/r I-TIVB.

    18 September 1973

    To British Island Airways with new c/r G-AVPN.

    16 January 1980

    To Air UK keeping c/r G-AVPN.

    26 March 1986

    To Euroair keeping c/r G-AVPN.

    24 November 1989

    To British Air Ferries keeping c/r G-AVPN.

    6 January 1992

    To Channel Express keeping c/r G-AVPN.

    20 October 1997

    Last flight.
    Bournemouth to Elvington for Preservation.

    To Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington Airport, York, Yorkshire, England.
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    30 April 2010


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington

    11 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Handley Page Herald at Yorkshire Air Museum - now demoted to the area behind the main hangar

    June 2015

    Scrapped.
    Reduced to forward fuselage, remainder scrapped due to corrosion.

    5 March 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Reduced to exhibit at Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington Airport, York,
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