Can anyone throw any light on the eventual fate of this aircraft.
Built and flown from Hamble in 1930 by the Australian Bert Hinkler, it was de registered in 1933.
It was last officially seen at the RAeS garden party at Hatfield in 1953, minus its two pusher,pull engines mounted on top of the fuselage, after being found in Bert Hinklers garden in Southampton.
It was then according to records scrapped in 1959.
Where was it kept from 1953 to 1959? and is there any truth in reports that it was at the Newark Air Museum in the early 1970s as a report states in the October 2002 edition of Flypast magazine.
By: civil aero - 13th December 2017 at 22:32
The rear fuselage and Tail group are all at the RAF store at Stafford….. we had a look at them only last year….Fabric is still on them…
By: Elmdon Boy - 13th December 2017 at 19:41
Thanks avion, but still doesn’t answer my query regards the Newark link.
By: avion ancien - 13th December 2017 at 17:34
Discussed back in 2009 – q.v. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?94550-Hinkler-Ibis.
By: viscount - 13th December 2017 at 17:27
For the second time in almost as many weeks, a thread has sent me reaching for my copy of the Air Britain book ‘The British Civil Aircraft Registers G-AAAA to G-AAZZ’ published sometime mid 70s (I think).
The entry adds little to the summary in the OP and does not answer the questions asked. There is some additional information and confirmation of the general story.
G-AAIS HINKLER IBIS (C/n. 1) Regd 11.6.29 to S/Ldr Herbert J Hinkler, resident Southampton.
No C of A issued. Flown at Hamble without markings late in 8.30, it was subsequently stored in Hinkler’s garden at Sholing.
With his death in Puss Moth CF-APK on 7.1.33, the aircraft’s marks were cancelled in the 12.33 census.
The dismantled Ibis lay forgotten for 20 years and was re-discovered semi-derelict in September 1952.
Acquired by H.C.G. Stisted who renovated the airframe and exhibited it at the Hatfield Garden Party on 14.6.53, but without the push-pull engine nacelle that was originally mounted above the fuselage.
Unfortunately, this relic was scrapped at Lee-on-Solent in 1959.
By: farnboroughrob - 13th December 2017 at 15:28
I always wondered how it reappeared in the 50’s as Hinkler died in 1933? All I can assume the house stayed in the family until c1952? I believe it was kept at Lee-on-Solent in the 50’s so may have had a naval owner??
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