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Registration: G-AJVD

Construction Number: 10

Code Number: WB551

Model De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk 1A-1

Operator: de Havilland Aircraft Co.

Airport: In Flight, International Airspace

Photographer: R.A.Scholefield Collection

Date Taken: 12/08/1949

Date Submitted: 31/10/2012

The tenth Canadian-built Chipmunk on a test flight from Hatfield. It had been marked "WB551" for a publicity photo. The first UK-built RAF example WB549 flew two weeks later. Image given to me by DH 60 years ago. [ABPIC note: re-registered G-ARFW 1/3/60, DBR near Cherbourg and registration cancelled by CAA as PWFU 20/6/66.]

Picture ID:1373942

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