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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk 22A
    Last Military Serial:WP791 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0683
    Last Civil Registration:VH-ZIZ
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Canada Chipmunk 22A sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Classic Jets Fighter Museum, Parafield Airport, Adelaide, South Australia

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    Dates

    Event

    1952

    Constructed as a Chipmunk 22A.

    1952

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WP791.

    21 April 1959

    To A. J. Whittemore, Croydon Airport with new c/r G-APTS.

    27 October 1959

    To Finance and General Hire Company keeping c/r G-APTS.

    29 December 1961

    To Surrey and Kent Flying Club, Biggin Hill Airport keeping c/r G-APTS.

    Circa 1965


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: Circa 1965 photo at Biggin Hill

    3 March 1969

    To Brian Harold Pickard keeping c/r G-APTS.

    From 6 August 1987 to 17 June 1992

    To Wycombe AIR Centre Ltd, Wycombe AIR PARK, Booker, Marlow keeping c/r G-APTS.

    17 June 1992

    To George Terence Grimward, 32 GREEN LANE, Burnham, Slough keeping c/r G-APTS.

    1 July 1993

    Civil registration, G-APTS, cancelled.

    2 July 1993

    To Mike Hannell with new c/r VH-ZIZ.

    10 November 1994

    To Michael Damer Hannell, North Adelaide, SA keeping c/r VH-ZIZ.

    22 December 2004

    To Michael Hannell, North Adelaide, SA keeping c/r VH-ZIZ.

    2 March 2011


    Photographer: Robert Frola via Wikipedia / Flickr
    Notes: 2011 photo

    2014

    Based at Classic Jets Fighter Museum, Parafield Airport, Adelaide, South Australia.
    Operated with markings: as WP976 / D
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    17 March 2017


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: At the annual AAAA Fly-In at Echuca in 2017
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