Proctor I makes debut public appearance

Whitby, Yorkshire-based Paul Gliddon’s Percival Proctor I VH-UXS made its public debut at the Tyabb Air Show in Gliddon’s hands on 10 February, nearly five years after its first post-restoration flight at Latrobe Valley Regional Airport, 90-odd miles west of Melbourne. Restored to fly by Brian and Damien Turner’s Latrobe Valley Airframe and Welding, with assistance from Paul Gliddon during each Australian summer, the Proctor made its first flight for nearly 50 years on 29 April 2019. But the COVID-19