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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk T.10
    Last Military Serial:WD363 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0304
    Last Civil Registration:G-BCIH
    Latest Owner or Location:Vintage Fabrics Aircraft Services, Audley End, Essex, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Chipmunk T.10.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WD363.

    From 3 July 1974 to 14 September 1989

    To John Michael Hosey with new c/r G-BCIH.

    From 14 September 1989 to 3 August 2009

    To John Michael Hosey keeping c/r G-BCIH.

    3 August 2009

    To Peter James Richie, Weston Down Lane, Weston Colley, Winchester keeping c/r G-BCIH.

    Based at Vintage Fabrics Aircraft Services, Audley End, Essex, England.
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    Markings Applied: 5

    15 May 2015

    Involved in an incident.
    Force landed in a crop field at Bilbrook, Somerset, UK.

    30 September 2018


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2018 Cotswold Revival Meet, Kemble, UK

    7 May 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Popham
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     Terry Fletcher
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