Well done to the buyer and even better that airworthy is the aim. Transports had been overlooked in flying preservation for many years and in recent times there has been a late revival in fortunes for those that have survived.

My log recalls several days in 1973 at Valley when movements included Basset, Andover, Pembroke and Devon. In fact to some there were interchangeable. Asssistant upstairs in the tower phoned the switchboard to say the Basset had landed, I looked out of the window a few minutes later to see a Pembroke taxy past.