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    Airframe Family: Sopwith Strutter
    Latest Model:1 1/2 Strutter
    Construction Number:WA/5
    Last Civil Registration:G-BIDW
    Compressed ID:Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter cn WA/5 cr G...
    Latest Owner or Location:Royal Air Force Museum, Midland, Cosford, Shropshire, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 1 1/2 Strutter.
    Markings applied: A8226

    From 1977 to 1980

    Markings Applied: 9382
    Finished in Royal Flying Corps colours.

    24 September 1980

    To Vivian Hampson Bellamy, Little Jopda Cottage, Saint Just, Penzance, Cornwall with new c/r G-BIDW.

    Circa September 1980

    First flight.
    Flown at Lands End Aerodrome with two short test flights.

    29 December 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-BIDW expired.
    Test permit expired.

    After the two test flights the airframe was grounded.

    Circa January 1981

    To RAF Museum Rcandrc, RAF Cardington, Beds.
    Markings added: 8226
    Recovered with Irish linen.

    18 August 1982

    To RAF Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England.
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    4 February 1987

    Civil registration, G-BIDW, cancelled.

    2009


    Photographer: Andy West

    11 December 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Strutter is part of the Grahame-White Factory Aircraft Collection at the RAF Hendon Museum

    By 2016

    To Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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    26 October 2016


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Now at RAF Museum, Cosford

    To Royal Air Force Museum, Midland, Cosford, Shropshire, England.
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    Mike Henniger
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