07/31/2012. Produced for the RAF by de Havilland in the UK as a DHC-1 Chipmunk T.Mk.10, this aircraft was delivered under serial WG422 on October 22, 1951. Struck off charge 22 years later, October 25, 1973, it was transferred to No.1 SoTT (School for Technical Training) on November 9, 1973, and became a ground instruction airframe under the code 8394M.

Subsequently the aircraft was sold and came on the British register as a Chipmunk Mk.22 on August 31, 1977, and since has had nine sequential civil owners, although still wearing its RAF livery.