Dove Production at Hatfield

Hi Guys,
Found this Film Clip of DH Hatfield 1948
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/de-havilland-aircraft-factory
Cheers, Dan
http://dh104preservation.webs.com/
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Production was transferred to Chester after the 300th aircraft had been built (04298/CF-GQQ) in 1951. The first Chester-built aircraft was 04299/LR-M-110 for the Lebanese Air Force.

Thanks Lee,
just checking as it had been claimed that one of the doves here in OZ was the last from hatfield but you have confirmed that is not the case.
Cheers, Dan
http://dh104preservation.webs.com/

Original DH company documentation. Yours?

Sounds good! My source have I mentioned before.

Lee, please could you add the source for this? Thanks, Martin

Original DH company documentation. Yours?

Production was transferred to Chester after the 300th aircraft had been built (04298/CF-GQQ) in 1951. The first Chester-built aircraft was 04299/LR-M-110 for the Lebanese Air Force.

Lee, please could you add the source for this? Thanks, Martin

Production was transferred to Chester after the 300th aircraft had been built (04298/CF-GQQ) in 1951. The first Chester-built aircraft was 04299/LR-M-110 for the Lebanese Air Force.

I’m not 100% certain that this will actually assist the OP’s question, but Series 1 Dove G-AHRI at Newark has the c/n 04008 from when it was first registered on 11th July 1946.

Further to other posts about these parts NAM believes that G-AHRI is the oldest Dove survivor.

Also as previously posted about these parts – “Earlier this year the museum helped another forumite with some photographic research into the NAM Archive, which related to a publishing project. Perhaps that forumite might also declare their interest in the type!” – perhaps he might be able to assist!

Further research would suggest that Wieesso is correct! Among others, the Indian Air Force had c/n 4074 – HW201, c/n 4075 – HW202 and c/n 4081 – HW204, so my assumption that HW referred to Hawarden would seem to be incorrect. 😮

Wasn’t HW a serial no of Indian Air Force? You can find the first of their Doves, HW 201 with c/n 04074…

In Hawarden they changed designations to 1B and 2B – and the first of these I found was
c/n 04338 srs 2B and
c/n 04367 srs 1B
according to “The DH104 Dove and DH114 Heron” by C.Barber, D. Shaw and T. Sykes, Air Britain, 1973

I have found the following references:

C/N 4159 – HW516
4160 – HW517
4162 – HW525
4163 – HW515
4164 – HW518
4171 – HW526
4172 – HW519
4185 – HW521.

If these numbers are relevant, it would suggest that C/N 4163 was the first Dove produced at Hawarden.

Thanks HP111
Do you know from what C/N number production at Hawarden started?
Cheers Dan

Dove production was transferred to Hawarden in 1951 as explained in “De Havilland Aircraft since 1909”.