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    Airframe Family: Taylorcraft Auster / J1 Autocrat / AOP / I / II / III / IV / V / A / C / D / G / H / J / J5 Aiglet / K / L/ M / N / P / Q / S
    Latest Model:9
    Last Military Serial:XR240 AAC
    Construction Number:AUS/177
    Last Civil Registration:G-BDFH
    Compressed ID:Auster 9 sn XR240 AAC cn AUS/177 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Richard Brian Webber, Parsley Cottage, The Square, Chulmleigh

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    Dates

    Event

    1962

    Constructed as a 9 by Auster.

    Circa 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Army Air Corps with s/n XR240.

    24 June 1975

    To F and H aircraft, Hounslow, Middlesex with new c/r G-BDFH.

    29 May 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Auster AOP.9 hangered at Sibson in May 1978.

    From 2 September 1981 to 21 January 2004

    To Ralph Owen Holden keeping c/r G-BDFH.

    21 January 2004

    To Richard Brian Webber, Parsley Cottage, The Square, Chulmleigh keeping c/r G-BDFH.

    24 June 2014


    Photographer: Jon Wickenden
    Notes: Auster AOP9 G-BDFH / XR240 at Trenchard Farm, Eggesford
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