The Duxford Aviation Society

De Havilland DH104 Dove G-ALFU The Dove was designed to act as a service communications and executive aircraft. Various government departments such as the Board of Trade and the Civil Aviation Authority, based at Stansted operated G-ALFU, which was built in 1948 at Hawarden The aircraft was used throughout its entire flying life in the specialist role of aircrew testing, aircraft navigational aid testing, and photography. The CAA withdrew FU from use in November 1972 having flown nearly 11,000 hours and donated it to the IWM at Duxford. In June 1984 it was transferred to the Aviation Society in exchange for a SAAB Draken which had been donated to them but did not really fit the civil aircraft collection profile of the Society.