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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-106 Comet / HS Nimrod
    Latest Model:Comet 4B
    Construction Number:6440
    Last Civil Registration:G-APZM
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Comet 4B cn 6440 cr G-...
    Latest Owner or Location:Dan-Air Services Limited, London

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Comet 4B.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-APZM (DH106 COMET 4B, 6440).

    From 3 February 1960 to 12 April 1966

    To British European Airways Corporation, Ruislip, Middlesex keeping c/r G-APZM.

    From April 1966 to November 1969

    To Leased to Olympic Airlines, Athens with new c/r SX-DAN.

    From 3 November 1969 to 14 May 1970

    To British European Airways Corporation, Ruislip, Middlesex with new c/r G-APZM.

    From 15 May 1970 to 5 April 1972

    To Channel Airways Limited, Southend-On-Sea, Essex keeping c/r G-APZM.

    30 August 1972

    To Dan-Air Services Limited, London keeping c/r G-APZM.

    21 February 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Comet 4B of Dan-Air as seen at Manchester in February 1973.

    24 July 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Comet 4B of Dan-Air taxying for departure at London Gatwick in the Summer of 1976.

    10 January 1979

    Civil registration, G-APZM, cancelled.
    Permanently withdrawn from use.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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