XL500

Well Mr Hellman
It seems that you want to find out information through the Forum as you are not brave enough to use your real identity and it is obvious that you may be scared of the legal comebacks from the person or persons involved with this pareticular aircraft.
I have been involved in the maintenance of XL500 from the time served on ARK Royal right through to present with obvious different postings in between. I would not get involved with restoring this aircraft if
1, there was an issue with ownership
2, I did not think it was worthwhile
3, The public did not want to see it fly and not just rot away on the ground.

I was working on the School of Aircraft handling and when an aircraft is sent to this department it becomes ‘Struck off charge’ and no longer becomes an aircraft but becomes a Training aid. It just seems strange but over the last few weeks there has been a question of ownership of this aircraft and it started with a small group of individuals that were ex aircrew of 849 that paid a small fee to keep this and a Mk 5 gannet at Culdrose to let them rot away as a gate guard. I have seen the invoice of the sale of the aircraft to Mr Manna and the signature is from someone well qualified to sell the aircraft. All i can say to you Mr Hellman is, if you would like to re-emburse all the money and time that has been spent up to now on XL500 i would gladly let you have the aircraft and i will retire to somewhere warmer and not have to worry about finances anymore and you can also explain to everybody that has helped in providing spares and tooling to assist in the restoration of the aircraft why the aircraft will just get scrapped.

Politics within the historic aviation is the biggest cause of confrontation within companies and owners of these aircraft and it seems that you want to look for any excuse to have a private confrontation with someone on a popular Forum.

Apologies to all the genuine forum members that have been a great supporter of returning a fine aircraft to the air. (eventually).