Yesterday, Saturday 3rd September, I saw a light aircraft in US military markings flying low over Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire. It looked like an Aeromere Falco but was in a very smart polished natural metal colour scheme with mid-blue trim and it was just close enough to make out US stars on the fuselage. This was about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, if that’s any help, and it was coming in to land at an airstrip on a local farm. The undercarriage could either have been fixed or just down for landing.
Any ideas?
By: Arabella-Cox - 7th September 2011 at 13:40
Thank you, Tony.
I hope I catch it at an airshow one day.
By: TonyT - 6th September 2011 at 18:52
Jetflap, here she is just landed at the show
http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/Viuctory%20Show%202011/navion1.jpg
Side on
http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/Viuctory%20Show%202011/navion.jpg
By: Banupa - 6th September 2011 at 17:20
Here’s one with paint…
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th September 2011 at 13:38
Thanks chaps, I reckon you’ve got it. I’ve googled N8968H and it looks very much like the one I saw.
By: TonyT - 5th September 2011 at 14:39
🙂
Could have been the North American Navion on it’s way home from the Victory Show at Leicester, they were built after the war and owe a bit to their predecessors in design the P51 Mustang.. will post a pic for you tonight of it taxying in at the Show on Saturday if you want..
By: Sywell Spotter - 5th September 2011 at 14:21
Could this have been N8968H – it was at Sywell Northants the last week of August?
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