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Registration: WK582

Construction Number: C1-0604

Code Number: 51

Military Unit: 16 Reserve Flying School

Model De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T10

Operator: Royal Air Force

Airport: Derby - Burnaston, UK - England

Photographer: Dave Welch Collection

Date Taken: 1955

Date Submitted: 04/11/2014

Original by C S Waterfall. Year a guess. It is a Leeds UAS aircraft still carrying its old 16 RFS 51 code with the image probably taken between July 1953 and sometime in 1956 prior to/after servicing at Derby. Written off in a fatal accident on 12 April 1957. It spun into the ground in the grounds of Harwood House Yorkshire during aerobatics, killing its cadet pilot.

Picture ID:1472429

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