Bostons and Havocs

Look out for some BIG news on this in the latest issue of ‘Classic Wings’ , U.K. subscribers should find out in a few days 😉

Dave

Hi Dave

Now come on you can’t tease me like that – What exactly is going on – I live for this kind of thing – PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE Let me in on it .

Classic wings take foreeeeeeeeeever to get to my Newsagent and I am too disorganised to subscribe.

Kindest regards
John P

Great – thanks guys

Look for material, including photos, about the Douglas Boston-Havoc UK Preservation Trust located at Leicestershire in the Crowood Book “Douglas Havoc and Boston: The DB-7/A-20 Series” to be available in late June.

That A-20 effort consists mostly A-20G s/n 43-9628 with other material gathered primarily through trades with the RAAF Museum. Mr. Richard Nutt, one of the principals in the Trust, was very helpful in providing material about the restoration effort for the book.

PNG Havocs

Look out for some BIG news on this in the latest issue of ‘Classic Wings’ , U.K. subscribers should find out in a few days 😉

Dave

Thanks guys – yep both favourite aircraft of mine i really hope that we get a Boston in the UK – What about that Vengeance for sale in OZ – that’d be great too….are the RAFM pitching for it?

Steve Milnethorpe who singlehandedly rebuild a Hurricane (see FlyPast for more infor on that one) is working on a (or this one) Boston/Havoc. At least that’s what he told me last year.

The UK desperately needs one to fill a huge gap.

Cees

Hi Texantomcat

I had heard that some of the material retrieved from PNG for the two Boston restorations that occurred was later aquired by a group in the UK. A lot of material was retrieved over the years and I am quite sure 3-4 more machines could be produced. one magazine article has suggested that Boston surplus parts were/are available on the market from the RAAFM Point Cook.

One restored Boston is in the RAAFM and the other is at RAAF Amberly awaiting a home for it in PNG.

Kindest regards
John Parker

i think Tempest Two have 2 Sturmovik’s under restoration, 1 is for hendon, the other is to airworthy spec 😀