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Name: Smirnoff

Type: Colt 14A

Serial number: 34

First flown: 1979

Notes: Cloudhopper, last recorded photograph of this balloon flying is 1986 at Old Warden. Robin Batchelor did fly it over Henley Regatta one summer, the direction took him right down the rowing course.

Credit: Richard Hands/BBM&L