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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-87
    Latest Model:DH-87B Hornet Moth
    Last Military Serial:AW118 RAF
    Construction Number:8105
    Last Civil Registration:G-AELO
    Latest Owner or Location:Mark John Miller, Orwell, Royston

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    Dates

    Event

    1936

    Constructed as a DH-87B.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n AW118.
    Impressed into service with the RAF during WWII.

    To unknown owner with c/r G-AELO.
    Returned to civilian service after the war.

    To Vintage Fabrics Aircraft Services, Audley End, Essex, England.
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    1971


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1971 photo at Old Warden

    1975


    Photographer: Peter M. Law
    Notes: 1975 photo at Old Warden

    From 13 July 1976 to 5 July 1991

    To Simon Neville Bostock with c/r G-AELO.

    From 5 July 1991 to 9 October 1998

    To David Edward Wells with c/r G-AELO.

    Circa 9 October 1998

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-AELO (DH87B HORNET MOTH, 8105) issued.

    9 October 1998

    To Mark John Miller, Orwell, Royston.

    3 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 LAA Rally at Sywell in the UK

    31 August 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Arriving at the 2013 Light Aircraft Association Rally at Sywell in the UK
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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