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Registration: G-ABOC

Construction Number: 2201

Code Number: G-ABOC

Model De Havilland DH.80A Puss Moth

Operator: Private

Airport: Nairobi - Wilson (WIL / HKNW), Kenya

Photographer: William Heber Percy collection

Date Taken: 05/10/1936

Date Submitted: 23/06/2019

L-R in front of the plane: Mary Violet McCallum, wife of Duncan McCallum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_McCallum (Passenger) Lord Lovat who led 4 Commando and later on the 1st Special Service Brigade during the D-Day invasion of Sword beach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fraser,_15th_Lord_Lovat Fl Lt John Heber Percy who owned G-ABOC from January 1936 to February 1938. His Log book and photo album record this as the end of a 27hr 20 min, 2,500 mile flight over three days from Cairo to Nairobi. At the time he was ADC to Sir Miles Lampson, High Commissioner to Egypt and Sudan.

Picture ID:1659128

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