File:Piper L-4H Grasshopper ‘329854 - L - 44-R’ (G-BMKC) (19571122389).jpg

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c/n 11145. Full US military serial ’44-329854’. Wears the markings of the 381st Bomb Group, based at Ridgewell, Essex in 1944. 2015 Flying Legends Airshow. Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK. 12-7-2015

The following info is from the Flying Legends website:-

“This L-4 was taken on charge from the Piper Aircraft Corporation at Lock Haven in January 1944 and first issued to the Eighth Air Force. She served the U.S Ground Forces in Europe possibly with Pattons 3rd Army. In 1947 she was struck of charge and sold as surplus and acquired by a French aero club. She was acquired by a British owner and arrived in the U.K. In 2011 she moved to The Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar Ltd, Biggin Hill, Kent.”
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Author Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK
Camera location52° 05′ 35.87″ N, 0° 07′ 48.5″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Hawkeye UK at https://flickr.com/photos/65001151@N03/19571122389. It was reviewed on 6 November 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

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