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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk 22
    Last Military Serial:WB581 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0033
    Last Civil Registration:ZS-LJU
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Chipmunk 22 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Springs Aerodrome, Springs, Gauteng

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Chipmunk 22.

    28 March 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WB581.

    Circa 1964


    Photographer: Neil Aird
    Notes: At Scone Airfield, Scotland

    From 12 October 1973 to November 1982

    To Anthony John Hurst, London with new c/r G-BBNB (DHC-1 CHIPMUNK 22 (MODIFIED), C1/0033).

    6 July 1974


    Photographer: Stephen Williams
    Notes: G-BBNB at Hawker Siddeley Hatfield Open Day in 1974.

    9 November 1982

    Civil registration, G-BBNB, cancelled.
    Exported to South Africa.

    Circa December 1982

    To Brakpan, South Africa with new c/r ZS-LJU.

    Based at Springs Aerodrome, Springs, Gauteng.
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    January 2018


    Photographer: Pieten Jacq Juijken
    Notes: One of three DHC-1 Chipmunks at Classic Flying Collection at Springs Aerodrome, South Africa
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