The newly refurbished Beagle-Pup "Echo Charlie" in its original Guardsman Red and white paint scheme at the    legendary Kai Tak Airport

on 23 December 2003.

The Beagle Pup G-AWEC was later changed to the Hong Kong registration VR-HGT and was flying by the Chin Brothers and their friends in Hong Kong since its epic arrival in 1972. Then the Chin Brothers was going overseas one by one.  At the time Francis Chin, who was also going overseas,  was the Commanding Officer of the Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps (HKACC). Francis was of the opinion that the Beagle Pup could be very useful if it was donated to the Air Cadets or the Air Scouts for flying training.  The Beagle Pup is economical to run and it was kept in excellent top conditions by the Chin Brothers. With all the volunteer expertise of the air cadets and its officers,  the Beagle Pup is the ideal training aircraft for the air cadets.

 The Beagle Pup was finally donated by the Chin Brothers to the Hong Kong Aviation Club in 1983. However, things never work out the way it should be as It was merely used for display and watch advertisement and painted in a ugly yellow colour with red flame pattern bearing the watch's name.  It  was hired out for commercial displays from time to time.

Recently  the original vision of Francis Chin in 1983 was materialised as The Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps was allowed to use the Beagle Pup G-AWEC as a teaching aid for aviation education training of its cadets.  Unfortunately it was only 20 years late. The Beagle Pup was not in good shape and  its radio, antenna, carburettor the  oil cooler of  its Rolls Royce engine were missing.  The HKACC  decided to commission a project to rebuilt the Beagle Pup. The Hong Kong Aviation Club provided venue and facilities while three volunteer air cadet engineers  and a retired engineer laboured during their spare time and weekends to strip down the whole aeroplane, treat the corrosions, repair the engine, and .to repaint it back to its original guardsman-red-and-white glory of the G-AWEC paint scheme with the assistance and advice of Francis Chin who returned to Hong Kong and  had an  emotional reunion with the refurbishing Beagle Pup whom he had flown in and out of death during the epic England to Hong Kong flight in 1971. Francis is very grateful for the volunteer engineers who are giving a new paint job for the Pup. The engineers are very happy too as they  can get first hand information from Francis regarding details such as original paint scheme,  paint code, original registration marks, source of spare parts etc. The volunteer engineers are Mr. Donny Chan, Mr. Dandy Wong, Mr. Michael Wong and Mr. Chow Kim Fung.

Mr. K.F. Chow and the newly painted propeller spinner, cowling and wings.