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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk 22
    Last Military Serial:WB730 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0179
    Last Civil Registration:G-AOUO
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Chipmunk 22 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Hooton Park Trust, Hooton, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1950

    Constructed as a Chipmunk 22.

    12 October 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WB730.

    10 August 1956

    To Air Service Training, Hamble with new c/r G-AOUO.

    28 June 1960

    To College of Air Training, Hamble keeping c/r G-AOUO.

    26 June 1969

    To Michael Kennedy, Hockley, Essex keeping c/r G-AOUO.

    9 August 1970

    To Nigel John Read Minchin, Twickenham keeping c/r G-AOUO.

    1 May 1973

    To Stanley Gossip, Hull keeping c/r G-AOUO.

    11 December 1976

    To Colin Douglas Stevens, Dunstable keeping c/r G-AOUO.

    17 January 1978

    To Trustees of the RAF Gliding and Soaring Association, RAF Bicester, Oxford keeping c/r G-AOUO.

    From 21 July 1983 to 8 June 2011

    To THE ROYAL AIR FORCE Gliding and Soaring Association RAF Halton Aylesbury HP22 5PG keeping c/r G-AOUO.

    1 August 1993


    Photographer: Vince Horan
    Notes: At Bicester

    27 June 2010


    Photographer: Rich Tregear
    Notes: 2010 photo at Biggin Hill Air Fair in the UK

    2 August 2012

    To Michael Cuming, Banbury keeping c/r G-AOUO.

    2014

    Based at Clacton Airfield, Clacton Airfield, Clacton, Essex, England.
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    13 January 2015

    To The Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association, RAF Halton, Aylesbury keeping c/r G-AOUO.

    August 2016

    The aircraft is still in pieces in a container at Halton awaiting a decision on whether it is worth returning it to flight status.

    10 May 2019

    Civil registration, G-AOUO, cancelled.

    Circa 2021

    Placed on display with Hooton Park Trust, Hooton, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester, England.
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