08/22/2022. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "This aircraft was built by Auster Aircraft Ltd. at Rearsby Aerodrome, near Leicester as a J/1B Aiglet. It was registered as G-AMKU to Pest Control Ltd. at Bourn Aerodrome near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK, on July 10, 1951.
On May 6, 1953, it was transferred to the Sudan register as SN-ABD, after Sudan became independent on January 1, 1956, the registration changed to ST-ABD.
The aircraft returned to the UK in 1958 and was registered, again as G-AMKU, to Fison Airworks Ltd. at Bourn Aerodrome on July 31, 1958. On September 27, 1960, the register was amended as the company name had changed to Airworks (Helicopters) Ltd., and had moved to Redhill Aerodrome, Redhill, Surrey. It was deregistered on January 22, 1962.
Three weeks later, February 14, it was registered to Gerrard Arthur Patrick Newton Barlow of Colgate, West Sussex.
G-AMKU was reregistered to the trustees of the assets of the Southdown Flying Group living in Henfield and Horsham in West Sussex, on October 20, 1964, while the aircraft was based at a private airstrip in Morestead, near Winchester, Hampshire.
Paul Graham Lipman of Sevenoaks, Kent, became the next and present owner. Lipman replaced the original 130 hp Gipsy Major 1 with an 145 hp de Havilland Gipsy Major 10 Mk.2-2 powerplant, hence the aircraft was reregistered as a model J/1S Autocrat on January 25, 1993.
