First registered in 1948 and here in service with the Board of Trade. It carries multiple antennae plus an astrodome on the roof suggesting use as a navigation aid calibration aircraft. It was withdrawn from use on 11 February 1977.

slide from the NK collection. - G-AVDX visited Munich one year before the new titles were adopted: Civil Aviation Authority. First flown on 21/JAN/67, it spent sixteen years in England before being sold to Intercontinental Airlines of Nigeria as 5N-AVZ. It was seen as such in storage at Lagos in 1989 and again in 1998.

Nowadays suspended indoors at Duxford, this Dove spent many years on external display.

Owner since new in 1949, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Board of Trade, Department of Trade and Industry, Civil Aviation Flying Unit.... Seen here on the Stansted dump, with its Civil Aviation Flying Unit titles on the rear fuselage painted out.

Originally built as a Dove 4 and then modified to Dove 6 specs with more powerful engines. It spent the whole of its flying career from 1948 to 1972 based at Stansted Airport checking airport navigational aids and radio communications as well as aircrew training. It amassed a total of 10,597 hours before arriving at the IWM Duxford in 1973. In 1984 it was transferred to the Duxford Aviation Society but remained on display at the IWM. Seen here displayed in IWM's AirSpace.

Ownership transferred from the IWM to the Duxford Aviation Society in 1984, but always remained on display at the IWM.