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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-104 Dove/Devon
    Latest Model:Dove 1B
    Construction Number:04082
    Last Civil Registration:G-ANVU
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Dove 1B cn 04082 cr G-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Osterlens Flygmuseum, Ostra Vemmerlov, Sweden

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Dove 1B.

    November 1947

    To West African Airways Corporation, Nigeria with new c/r VR-NAP.

    Converted to a Dove 1B.

    From 12 November 1954 to 1 August 1972

    To Channel Airways Ltd, Southend-On-Sea, Essex with new c/r G-ANVU.

    From 1 August 1972 to 14 January 1974

    To Gerald Thomas Lee keeping c/r G-ANVU.

    From 5 February 1974 to 20 June 1985

    To Thomas Denis Keegan keeping c/r G-ANVU.

    4 July 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Seen at Stansted Airport, Essex whilst owned by Thomas Denis Keegan and used as executive transport for British Air Ferries, Southend-on-Sea.

    1984


    Photographer: Andy Chetwyn
    Notes: 1947 De Havilland Dove 1B G-ANVU at Cranfield in 1984.

    3 April 1986

    To Aces High Limited, Building C1, West Wing, Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Surrey keeping c/r G-ANVU.

    16 September 1986

    Civil registration, G-ANVU, cancelled.

    2011

    To Osterlens Flygmuseum, Ostra Vemmerlov, Sweden.

    24 August 2019


    Photographer: Nigel Roling
    Notes: G-ANVU Dove at Osterlens-Vemmerlov Flygmuseum, Sweden.
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