on static display at the Aeronautics Museum of Maracay in Maracay, Aragua. Appearances in fiction A de Havilland Dove featured prominently in the Gavin Lyall adventure novel Shooting Script. G-ARBH features in the 1962 film The Wrong Arm of the Law as the personal aeroplane of Peter Sellers' character Pearly Gates. Near the beginning of the 1980 film Flash Gordon, travel agent Dale Arden and New York Jets quarterback Flash Gordon board a de Havilland Dove which subsequently crashes into a greenhouse adjacent to the secret laboratory of Dr. Hans Zarkov. The atmospheric disturbances that caused the crash were instigated by planet Mongo's ruler Ming the Merciless. The crash sequence was filmed using a 30-inch-long model Dove diving into a miniature landscape. In season 2, episode 9 of the British TV series The Crown, Prince Philip is portrayed as flying a de Havilland Dove. Specifications (Dove 7) See also References Notes Bibliography "Complete Civil Registers: 15: X- UN- Yu- Yugoslavia". Air-Britain Archive, Winter 2009. pp. 147–148. . "de Havilland Dove." Flight International, 30 May 1946. pp. 547a-547e. Ellis, Ken. Wrecks & Relics, 23rd Edition. Manchester, England: Crecy Publishing, 2012. ISBN 9 780859 791724. Gunston, Bill. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Propeller Airliners. Exeter Books, 1980. . Jackson, A.J. de Havilland Aircraft since 1909. London: Putnam & Company Ltd, 1978. . Jackson, A.J. de Havilland Aircraft since 1909. London: Putnam, Third edition, 1987. . Jane, Frederick Thomas. Jane's All the World's Aircraft. Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1972. Schlaeger, Gerald J. "de Havilland Dove Custom 800." Flying Magazine, September 1961. Vol. 69, No. 3. pp. 30–31, 64, 66. Stroud, John. "Post War Propliners: de Havilland Dove". Aeroplane Monthly, Vol. 22, No. 10, October 1994. pp. 64–69. Sykes, T. (editor) The DH104 Dove and DH114 Heron Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd, 1973. "The de Havilland Dove." Flight International, 12 April 1945. pp. 399–400. Taylor, John W. R. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1966–67. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1966. External links Airliners.net LTU Classic- Ihr Airlebnis - Home 1940s British airliners De Havilland aircraft Low-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1945 Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft