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In Issue 15 of "Twenty Four" The Magazine of XXIV Squadron Association dated Summer 2008 there is an article on aircraft operated by 24 Sqn during the period 1920 - 1928. DH9A Serial Number J567 is mention in this article:-

The de Havilland D.H.9A -These aeroplanes were designed as replacements for the DH4 and were used during the Great War by the Independent Air Force a strategic bombing unit commanded by Trenchard. After the war DH9A were used extensively abroad in the Middle east and elsewhere. 24 Squadron used them for continuation and conversion training, in fact Jim Mollison the famous aviator trained in them in 1924. He first went solo on the 9th August 1924 in a DH9A aircraft Serial Number J567.
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