Whatever happened to G-AOBV?

negetive moggy..im quite sure the pilot died in the aircraft when it hit the ground…the programme showed the aircraft and it was inverted on grass but still looked in reletively good condition except from where the engine was meant to be

Apols for off topic but it isn’t worth a thread on it’s own.

Moggy.
Are you from Huddersfield…and did you once knock about with a lad that was deaf?

…. about AVON fire service and it had a clip from a plane crash, looked to me like a piper cub maybe

If the pilot died it wasn’t this one then?

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/wdp/news/Plane-crash-drama/article-286918-detail/article.html

Maule M5-235C Lunar Rocket G-RAIN

Moggy

I moved G-AOBV from George French’s strip in the 1990’s to the owner’s house in Cheshunt. Whilst it had surface corrosion it wasn’t terminal by any stretch of the imagination. I believe her fuselage moved recently and is going to be used in the rebuild of another Autocar.

i meant it as another what happened to type thing rather than starting a new thread, thought it would be better to just post it here

Errrrrrr…………..Scott,

Don’t rerally see the connection with G-AOBV.

Planemike

kind of still on topic…i was watching a tv program on BBC 1 the other night i think it was about AVON fire service and it had a clip from a plane crash, looked to me like a piper cub maybe..cant remember the reg but it was upside down..sadly i think the pilot was killed, did anyone else see it?

Thanks all.

Here’s a couple of pictures of G-AOBV which were taken either at Willingale or Panshanger in the mid-1960’s when the aircraft was operated by Airviews Ltd. Thought they might be of interest.

G-AOBV

I remember it well from when it was based at Shoreham in the late 1950s and early 1960s as one of the Meridian Airmaps fleet along with G-AHEG Consul and later G-AHKX Avro 19. They had earlier been one of the last to have an Aerovan flying until G-AJKP was destroyed in a fatal crash in the Midlands in December 1957.

I last saw the Autocar about 20 years ago when it was dumped outside in a poor state and left to rot at George French’s strip at Bensons Farm, Laindon, near Basildon, Essex.

The frame was by then badly corroded, making any restoration not viable, but surprisingly it is said to still exist.

According to the latest W&R (no 21) published last April it was one of a number of airframes in the Gainsborough, Lincs area, having arrived there via Cheshunt.

Wicked Willip :diablo:

Try this link:

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=AOBV

Then click on the full registration history link. When that opens, take a look at the 3 PDF documents which have links.

Regards,

kev35