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    Airframe Family: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
    Latest Model:Chipmunk 22
    Last Military Serial:WK522 RAF
    Construction Number:C1-0559
    Last Civil Registration:G-BCOU
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1952

    Constructed as a Chipmunk 22.

    From 4 February 1952 to 1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WK522.

    1964

    Report by Russ Palmer, 1964, RAF Binbrock: I recorded this reg on the Chipmunk I had an ATC aerobatic air ex flight in at RAF Binbrook.

    10 October 1974

    To Peter John Loweth, Trustee of:, The Loweth Flying Group, The Elms, Billericay with new c/r G-BCOU.

    Circa 10 October 1974

    Certificate of airworthiness for G-BCOU (DHC-1 CHIPMUNK 22, C1/0559) issued.

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    27 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK

    31 July 2021


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At the Old Buckenham Airshow
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     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
    Russ Palmer
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