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    Airframe Family: Cierva C-30 / Avro 671 Rota
    Latest Model:C-30A
    Last Military Serial:HM580 RAF
    Construction Number:726
    Last Civil Registration:G-ACUU
    Compressed ID:Cierva C-30A sn HM580 RAF cn 726 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-30A.

    From 26 June 1934 to 31 December 1938

    To Air Services Training, Hamble Airfield, Southampton with new c/r G-ACUU.

    September 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n HM580.
    As a Rota I.

    23 May 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.

    From 3 December 1946 to 21 April 1950

    To The Cierva Autogiro Co Ltd, Eastleigh Airport, Southampton with new c/r G-ACUU.

    From 29 April 1950 to 14 November 1988

    To Guy Spencer Baker, Trustee of:, Montgomeryshire Ultra Light Flying Club, Rosebank, Bryneglwys, Welshpool keeping c/r G-ACUU.

    21 July 1951


    Photographer: via Tony Clarke
    Notes: At RAF Hendon

    30 April 1960

    Certificate of airworthiness expired.

    14 November 1988

    Civil registration, G-ACUU, cancelled.

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    Markings Applied: KX-K

    10 November 2013


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.
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     John Bennett
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