Thank you, India Four Two, for your reply.
The curse of typos – OF COURSE I meant 1948!
The photos on the NZ Civil Aircraft site show clearly the narrow-chord rudder and also the smaller DHC-1A elevator horns. I don’t know about you but I’m not that keen in dressing up aircraft to represent something they’re not – then again I’m probably a pedant and I guess the guy paying the bills can do what he likes! Nevertheless, it is indeed a very tidy unit.
I assume that when the blown canopy was fitted a DHC-1B windscreen was also fitted? The earlier Chippies had a distinctly narrower canopy cross-section (much more “pointy” at the top).
And as for the shots of the dilapidated Chipmunk on a pole in India – how very sad.