DH 89 Dragon Rapide G-ACZE.. ..0196

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13 cards (5 hand airbrushed in Blue/Red) - 1 clear, 6 Silver Astrolux, 1 White Astrolux, 5 Ivorex cards, includes decals, etched metal, moulded wheels, vac-forms, rigging cable.

Built in 1934, ACZE was first registered to the Anglo Persian Oil Co.Ltd, Abadan, then to Airwork Ltd at Heston 4/39. CZE was impressed into military service 7/40 as Z 7266. It was returned to the civil register in July 1942 to Allied Airways (Gander Dower), Dyce, and crashed when on service at Grimsetter, Orkney 27/12/45.

After some years, the remains of CZE were purchased by Brian Woodhead to add to his existing fleet, and immaculately restored to flying condition in Prince of Wales/Guards colours. Although CZE was never itself in the Prince's Fleet, he had owned both a DH 84 Dragon (G-ACGG) and an 89 (G-ADDD). A peculiarity of ACZE's PoW colour scheme is that it is the reverse of the original 1930's Guard's scheme which had red upper and blue lower colours on fuselage.