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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk T.10
    Last Military Serial:WG470 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0520
    Last Civil Registration:G-BBSS
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T.10 s...
    Latest Owner or Location:Coventry Gliding Club Ltd, The Gliding Centre, Husbands Bosworth, Lutterworth

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Chipmunk T.10.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WG470.

    July 1970

    Transferred to 2 Flying Training School, RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-BBSS.

    To The Gliding Centre, Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire/Leics, England.
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    From 25 January 1984 to 17 May 1988

    To Ernest William Moore keeping c/r G-BBSS.

    17 May 1988

    To Coventry Gliding Club Ltd, The Gliding Centre, Husbands Bosworth, Lutterworth keeping c/r G-BBSS.

    23 August 2008


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2008 photo whilst hangared at the Gliding Centre at Husbands Bosworth in the UK

    20 July 2021


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: G-BBSS de Havilland Canada DHC-1 C/n C1/0520 at Husbands Bosworth
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