Anson re paint for RAF 100

Thanks, Consul. Hopefully she’s still around and got better days ahead. Iirc I read somewhere that the remains of G-AHIC had also gone to the USA.

G-AGWE did indeed end up in the USA. I photographed its fuselage frame that was suspended from the roof of a hangar at Tico. When I went to the same location some years later the Anson had moved on – I don’t know if it survives.

The Avro 19s that were not scrapped by the RAF had a variety of roles. Treffield Aviation ran cargo including a lucrative ferry service from Blackpool to the Isle of man and Ireland during several ship strikes with cigarettes as freight. Some were planned to be used as medical/aid transports in the Biafra war refugee crisis and not all got there. I saw many being scapped at Shawbury and only the remote location of Aldergrove in Ireland saved WD413 from the same fate, being disposed of in 1977.

Originally posted by SADSACK
wonderful picture, thanks for sharing… what became of the others?

G-AGWE went to the States and is, I think, still stored somewhere in Florida
G-AWRS is at Nelsam
G-APHV is at East Fortune in its RAF markings of VM360
G-AYWA went to Belgium in 2007
G-AHIC donated its centre section to the rebuild of G-VROE

That is a lovely picture – those were the first historic aircraft I ever saw. I remember it was a murky day in early ’73 and they were quite a ghostly sight through the mist!
The For Sale notice from Flight in 1972 –

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Should emerge in the silver, white and day-glo colours of TX176, RAF Coningsby Station Flight, according to info posted on UKAR.

wonderful picture, thanks for sharing… what became of the others?

G-AHKX and others at Strathallan 1973.

It’s not G-VROE either, but G-AHKX.

ooopss my mistake, faulty grey cells…

It’s being repainted at Staverton, not Old Warden.

I was there last week and didn’t notice it.