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    Airframe Family: Avro 621 Trainer/Tutor / 616 / 637 / 646 Sea Tutor
    Latest Model:621 Tutor
    Last Military Serial:K3215 RAF
    Last Civil Registration:G-AHSA
    Compressed ID:Avro 621 sn K3215 RAF cr G-AHSA
    Latest Owner or Location:Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire - Central, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1933

    Constructed as a 621.

    1933

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n K3215.

    1939


    Photographer: RAF Photographer
    Notes: My Father Wing Commander A.V.Gifkins. Flying this Avro 621 s/n K3215 When Flying training as a Fighter Pilot in the RAF during WW2.it now resides in The Shuttleworth Collection.and I have this Original Photo.which he kept

    To unknown owner with c/r G-AHSA.

    To RAF College, Cranwell.

    December 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.
    Believed to have been the last Tutor on RAF strength at the time.

    To John Neasham.

    To Wing Commander Heywood.

    Suffered an engine crankshaft failure.

    Circa 1968


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: Circa 1968 photo at Old Warden

    25 March 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: The Shuttleworth Collection displayed their Tutor at Old Warden in the Spring of 1973.

    Circa 1974


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: Circa 1974 photo at Old Warden

    From 29 October 1981 to 29 October 1981

    To The Executive Committee The Shuttleworth Collection with new c/r G-AHSA.

    9 June 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 84

    8 April 1993

    To Richard Shuttleworth Trustees, Old Warden, Biggleswade keeping c/r G-AHSA.

    Based at Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
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    Restored.
    Markings Applied: K3241

    21 April 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Part of the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden

    21 July 2012


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: RAF Avro Tutor K3215/G-AHSA at the Shuttleworth Evening Airshow

    19 April 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2013 photo taken at Old Warden
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     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Terry Fletcher
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