Aeronca C.2/3 and 100 reg data

I am preparing a new book on the Aeronca C series aircraft and of course will also include the Aeronca 100 and derivatives. I would like to contact Mechta to see if he would like a piece about the time his father owned G-AEWU included in the book. I have a number of black and white photos. The fuselage survives with the current owner of G-AEWV and is back in one piece.

Peter

It dose not look like the airstrip at Eaton Bray. No airstrip in Totternhoe other than the gliding club.

Dave

The background looks a bit like Redhill, looking north towards South Nutfield from the front of the Tiger Club’s old hangar.

Wieesso, Thank you for finding those two. I am actually aware of the black and white pictures, but have yet to see anything in colour. Dad took G-AEWU to a number of fly-ins so pictures that’s where were taken. I guess the problem he had was that by keeping the Aeronca at RAE Farnborough, where taking cameras in was forbidden (Official Secrets etc.), he did not get any photos of her himself.

Wth regard to the G-AEWV photo, it could be that it is Sharnbrook, as the church there does have a steeple. I can’t find a decent shot on Google Streetview to get the hills and church together though.

Two bw photos of AEWU

http://www.na3t.org/air/photo/AB01257
http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/page/may-1952/41

A picture of G-AEWV presumably late 50s/early 60s. Anybody identify the location ??

G-AEWV by AJCDuxman, on Flickr

Duxman

Flikr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/64209520@N05/

Duxman, The last register entry for G-AEWV has the address as London Gliding Club, Dunstable but crossed out. Having worked up that way for a couple of years, commuting from Dunstable to Leighton Buzzard, there is something familiar about that tree line in the background, and I wonder if it is in a field somewhere near Totternhoe/Eaton Bray area but not at the gliding club itself. There is another picture of G-AEWV at LGC Dunstable on 23 June 1963 on the LAA website by Hubert Leno. http://www.laa-archive.org.uk/results.php?q=Hubert%20Leno&fields=photographer

Its nice to see a shot of G-AEWV in colour. I would really like to see one of G-AEWU in colour, but no luck so far.

I clearly remember seeing it at Fairoaks in 1961 as that day I took my first aircraft photo which was of Turbulent G-ARIZ. Parked nearby was the Aeronca G-AEWV and my brother took a photo of that. Both photos were entered in a competition at a local fete but we won no prizes!

A picture of G-AEWV presumably late 50s/early 60s. Anybody identify the location ??

G-AEWV by AJCDuxman, on Flickr

Duxman

Flikr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/64209520@N05/

I note that the Air-Britain list lacks some details on PH-ALG. This was registered to J.J. Jimmink, Callantsoog 14.02.1939. Reason for its 1942 (administrative) cancellation was that the aircraft was burnt in the Luftwaffe attack on De Kooy where it was based, on 10.05.1940.

Hi, I just came across this thread when searching for info on John Chapman*. He bought G-AEWV from my father who had it at RAE Farnborough. Dad said that although it flew in when he bought it in November 1961 and flew out (against Dad’s advice) when he sold it in November 1962(?), it wasn’t really in a fit state to fly. It is quite possible that John Chapman reached the same conclusion.

Dad had already rebuilt another Aeronca 100 G-AEWU, but it had been destroyed when the Bessonneau hangar in which it was stored, collapse under the weight of rain soaked snow on it.