Kight Twister, N979.

Wallace Cubitt imported this aeroplane in to the UK during the early 1990s with a couple of Cassutt Racers and a pair of Pitts Specials and it was, for a while, based on his airstrip on the old airfield at Foulsham in Norfolk before moving it to Shipdham where the runway was more suitable for a skittish little speed machine like the Twister. It didn’t fly very much during its time in UK but I remember seeing it fly at Shipdham shortly before Cubitt’s death in his Hawker Hunter.

Yes, I believe Richard Earl was one of the co-owners of the Miles Hawk.

Formerly registered in the UK as G-BRAX, and Google flagged up a link with photo:
http://www.laa-archive.org.uk/results.php?q=Payne%20Knight%20Twister%20KT85B&fields=model

Interesting little aircraft, with a reputation seemingly almost the same as the Flying Flea? Never heard of them until tonight 😉

And G-INFO confirms the UK ownership:

http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/modalapplication.aspx?catid=1&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=BRAX

I understand that it may have been in the ownership of someone called Richard Earl during its time in the UK, does this ring any bells with anyone?

I believe it was brought to the UK by the owners of Miles Hawk G-ADWT. I understand from a conversation with one of them that the CAA took one look at it and said ‘no way!’ So it remained in storage until being sold back to the US