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    Airframe Family: Avro 581/594/605/616/625 / Avian
    Latest Model:Avian IV
    Construction Number:R3/AV/127
    Last Civil Registration:N7083
    Compressed ID:Avro Avian IV cn R3/AV/127 cr N7083...
    Latest Owner or Location:Walter C. Bowe Trustee, Sonoma, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1927

    Constructed as an Avian II.
    Built at Newton Heath, Manchester in late 1927.

    By 1928

    To Wings Ltd Broken Hill with new c/r VH-UFZ.

    To G. Mathieson, Parachilna SA/Jacques Flying Services keeping c/r VH-UFZ.

    1931

    Converted to an Avian IV.

    1944

    To W. H. Kenny keeping c/r VH-UFZ.

    Was struck off charge in 1947 and languished at Archerfield, being recovered from a dump there around May 1980 by Alan Lewis of Packington NSW, who was having it rebuilt by Bob Pope in Brisbane. Unfortunately itsuffered some damage by vandals before before passing to Lang Kidby as a basket case for A$35,000. Lang restored the bits and pieces around a Gipsy II engine. First flight after restoration was in April 1998.

    To Lang Kidby.

    May 1998

    It was then airfreighted to Amsterdam in a Cathay 747, and after re-assembly flown from Schipol to Manston on 30 May 1998.- and then flying on to Woodford (Manchester) the following day.

    27 June 1998


    Photographer: ACW367
    Notes: VH-UFZ Avro Avian IV, owned by Lang Kidby, at the Waddington Airshow in the UK

    September 1998

    Re-enacted the epic solo journey of Bert Hinkler, who in 1928 became the first person to fly solo from England to Australia.

    1999

    The Avalon Air Show in 1999 Kidby sold the Moth to Greg Herrick of Minneapolis and the aircraft was shipped to the US.

    1999

    To Greg Herrick, Minneapolis.

    14 June 2001

    To Yellowstone Aviation Inc, Jackson, WY with new c/r N7083.

    3 July 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX7083 (594 MK 4, R3/AV/127) issued.

    24 October 2019

    To Walter C. Bowe Trustee, Sonoma, CA keeping c/r N7083.
    Markings added: G-EBUG

    1 June 2023


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: Marginal Aviation - First Ditch Fly-in, at Le Sueur, MN [12Y]. May 31- June 4, 2023
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