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    Airframe Family: Percival P-56 Provost
    Latest Model:Provost T.1
    Last Military Serial:WV499 RAF
    Construction Number:PAC/56/062
    Last Civil Registration:G-BZRF
    Latest Owner or Location:Paul Brandon Childs, Bridgwater

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    Dates

    Event

    1953

    Constructed as a Provost T.1.

    11 November 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WV499.

    7 September 1960

    New serial number assigned: 7698M RAF

    By 12 September 1981

    To RAF Saint Athan Historic Aircraft Collection.

    By 12 September 1981

    Markings Applied: G, P-G

    12 September 1981


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF St Athan Battle of Britain Air Day

    9 October 1986


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF St Athan Historic Aircraft Collection

    Circa 1995

    Privately owned at North Weald.

    By January 1997

    To 39 Restoration Group, Rougham.
    Photographed dismantled, Sandtoft, North Lincolnshire August 1998.

    By October 1997

    Photographed stored at Exeter.

    From 15 May 2001 to 22 February 2005

    To David Copley, The Grange, Barrow-Upon-Humber with new c/r G-BZRF (P56 PROVOST T1, PAC/F/062).
    Kept at Sandtoft then Booker.

    22 February 2005

    Civil registration, G-BZRF, cancelled.

    By December 2007

    To unknown owner.
    Under restoration.
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    Circa 27 June 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-BZRF (P56 PROVOST T1, PAC/F/062) issued.

    27 June 2016

    To Paul Brandon Childs, Bridgwater with new c/r G-BZRF.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    Internet Sources
     Air Britain
    Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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