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    Airframe Family: de Havilland DH-104 Dove/Devon
    Latest Model:Dove 8
    Last Military Serial:WB531 RAF
    Construction Number:04266
    Last Civil Registration:D-INKA
    Compressed ID:de Havilland Dove 8 sn WB531 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Incentive Classic GMBH

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    Dates

    Event

    1949

    Constructed as a Devon C.1.

    12 July 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WB531 as a Devon C.1.

    4 July 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Devon C.2 of 207 Squadron as support aircraft for the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at the 1976 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    25 June 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Devon C.2 of 32 Squadron attended the 1977 International Air Tattoo at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire.

    Redesignated as Dove 8.

    From 30 October 1984 to 3 May 1985

    To C E Aviation Limited with new c/r G-BLRN.

    24 June 1985

    To Clive Westgarth Simpson/Peter Delhaas/Abe van der Schraaf/Eric van der Schraaf keeping c/r G-BLRN.
    Based at Rotterdam, Netherlands.

    1988

    To DH. 104 Association, Lelystad, Netherlands keeping c/r G-BLRN.

    24 August 1988

    To Raymond E. Jordan, Tampa, FL with new c/r N531WB.

    From 24 December 1988 to 17 May 1990

    To R. E. Jordan, Hillsbrough, Florida, keeping c/r N531WB.
    Based in the Netherlands.

    17 May 1990

    Civil registration, N531WB, cancelled.

    From 18 May 1990 to 12 January 2000

    To Clive Westgarth Simpson with new c/r G-BLRN.

    12 January 2000

    To Jacobus Franciscus Maria Bleeker, LB Bergen N. H., Netherlands keeping c/r G-BLRN.

    Withdrawn from use.
    And stored in a container.

    2004

    Transported by ground.
    Container moved to Stadtlohn in Germany, where the aircraft was restored in flying condition by Gehling Flugtechnik.

    The aircraft was painted in the LTU colors and registered D-INKA.

    25 April 2005

    Civil registration, G-BLRN, cancelled.

    25 April 2005

    To Air Incentive Classic GMBH with new c/r D-INKA.

    26 September 2010


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: Wenningfeld airfield, Germany

    10 September 2016


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At the 2016 Oldtimer Fly-in at Hahnweide airfield near Stuttgart, Germany

    22 April 2023


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: D-INKA with www.LTU-classic.de - titles at Aero 2023, Friedrichshafen, Germany

    22 April 2023


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Sticker on D-INKA: 50 Years of LTU (Luft-Transport-Unternehmen) - 50 years of feeling well (1955 - 2005). The brand of LTU ended in 2009, after being sold to Air Berlin


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