Aircraft G-AJGS

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This aircraft was rebuilt at Booker in 1968 +/- and flown to Miami. Flight Magazine had an article about the trip "Not such a Rapide Trip to Miami". It was put on the US register. It later crashed and was written off. The photo' is of G-AJGS on its first flight after restoration at Booker with Bert Goodchild at the controls.

MalcolmClarke

This airframe has an unusual history which included not only registration changes but, unusually, also a change of cn and a subsequent return to its original cn.

Under G-ACZE and cn 6264, it was substantially damaged in a crash on December 27th 1945 and was declared PWFU and the registration cancelled on April 7th 1947.

It was completely rebuilt by De Havilland at Witney in 1946 and allocated a new registration G-AJGS and a new serial number W 1001 on October 24th 1947.

Eventually it was declared PWFU and de-registered on November 15th 1973

It was rebuilt in 1984 and re-registered on January 23rd 1985 under its original registration and serial, G-ACZE and 6264.

It was de-registered November 8th 2013 and now flies in the USA as N1934D.

More details may be found under

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=18721

and

http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh89.pdf

A difficulty arises from having to show four linked registrations having two serials. One solution would be to add "See comment" in the Construction Number (C/N) fields and describe Z7266, G-ACZE and N1934D with cn 6264 and G-AJGS with W 1001 in the respective comment in each profile, together with the above Internet links.

Comments welcomed.

Malcolm.

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