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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-85 Leopard Moth
    Latest Model:DH-85 Leopard Moth
    Last Military Serial:CH-366 SwiAF
    Construction Number:7007
    Last Civil Registration:ZK-ARG
    Latest Owner or Location:Croydon Aviation Heritage Museum, Mandeville, Southland, South Island

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DH-85.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n CH-366.

    To unknown owner with c/r HB-OTA.

    From 14 November 1979 to 6 August 1992

    To Arthur Humphreys Carrington with new c/r G-ATFU.

    6 August 1992

    To Alain de Cadenet, London keeping c/r G-ATFU.

    7 November 1996

    Civil registration, G-ATFU, cancelled.

    1998

    To unknown owner with c/r ZK-ARG.

    Based at Croydon Aircraft Company, Mandeville, Southland, South Island.
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    3 November 2017


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Under reconstruction at Croydon Aircraft Company, Mandeville, New Zealand

    March 2019


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: being restored at Mandeville, New Zealand

    To Croydon Aviation Heritage Museum, Mandeville, Southland, South Island.
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