I was lucky enough to fly both the wonderful Dove and Heron for Fairflight at Biggin Hill, probably the largest UK operator of the types. Happy days indeed. Mk 8 GARFZ was sadly lost in a hangar fire but GAROI, Fairflight's first Dove, carried on until I eventually delivered it to a parachute club in Belgium. Without doubt a lovely and classic British de Havilland machine.
Somewhere I have an article about those days that I wrote for a flying club newsletter, if i can find it I'll try and put a link to it on here.