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Registration: G-BDFF

Construction Number: HDB/1

Code Number: N220 / 4

Model Airborne Designs Supermarine S.5 Replica

Operator: Leisure Sport

Airport: Farnborough (FAB / EGLF), UK - England

Airshow: Farnborough - International Air Show - 1976

Photographer: Chris England

Date Taken: 10/09/1976

Date Submitted: 07/06/2012

Built at Thruxton between 1973 and 1975, and first flown from Southampton Water on 28/6/75. It was badly damaged in a take-off accident following engine failure at Thorpe Park on 23/9/82, following which it was rebuilt at Bodmin in 1985/86. New owner Bill Hosie Snr was sadly killed when this aircraft broke up on 23/5/87 over Carrick Roads, Falmouth.

Picture ID:1348937

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