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Registration: G-AHKV

Construction Number: 6792

Model De Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide

Operator: Mid Fly Ltd.

Airport: Birmingham - International (Elmdon) (BHX / EGBB), UK - England

Photographer: Barry Clay

Date Taken: 01/01/1968

Date Submitted: 17/05/2006

Note the disc underneath fuselage,this was a mock up plywood 'Flying Saucer'the aircraft was chartered by the Birmingham Mail to fly over the centre of Birmingham at night following sightings,not one person rang in to report the flashing lights in the sky that evening ! Broken up at Elmdon in September 1969 by the airport fire service.

Picture ID:1002331

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