G-AANH

G-AANH is believed to be the 43rd aeroplane built by Armand Deperdussin's company, completed in 1910. It is a single-seat monoplane with a three-cylinder Anzani engine, rated by Shuttleworth at 35hp. Before the First World War it was flown at Hendon.

In 1914 it was sold, damaged, to Albert Grimmer of Ampthill. Grimmer ran a cycle and motor business and had already rebuilt a crashed Blériot XI without any flying training. He repaired the Deperdussin and flew it from the polo ground near Bedford.

Richard Shuttleworth acquired it from Grimmer in poor condition in 1936, alongside the same Blériot. One account says the price was clearing a large stock of empty oil cans from Grimmer's garage. Grimmer's letters to Shuttleworth about the two machines, from 1935 to 1956, survive in the Bedfordshire Archives. Renovated at Old Warden, it flew again in 1937.

It was stored through the Second World War. Since then it has been flown on calm display days, normally limited to straight hops along the aerodrome. It appears at home airshows in summer, subject to weather and serviceability. It also carries the British Aviation Preservation Council number BAPC 4.

Kept in the Shuttleworth hangars at Old Warden alongside the other Edwardian aircraft between flying days. It flies only short straight hops in calm weather at Collection airshows.