Dear colleagues !
I have some information about Percival Proctor aircrafts, which were registered in Ireland:
– EI-ALY Proctor Mk.V serial Ae.72;
– EI-AMV Proctor Mk.V serial Ae.103;
– EI-AJR Proctor Mk.I serial K.238;
– EI-ACX Proctor Mk.I serial K.328;
– EI-ACV Proctor Mk.II serial K.426.
Have anybody any images (photos, drawings) of those Irish Proctors ?
What were further fates of those Proctors ?
Best regards,
Flyer.
By: wieesso - 25th December 2010 at 13:55
Tom E’s site linked in post 5 , was a useful guide to survivors but looks not to have been updated with more recent intelligence available for some years. So far as I know only minor components of EI-ACV may survive.
Tim
Thanks for clarifying!
By: Consul - 25th December 2010 at 11:58
I assume that you mean EI-ALY. That one was the ‘I’ve got an aeroplane on me hotel roof’ Proctor! The fuselage was on the roof of the Crofton Airport Hotel, Whitehall, by 1974. It was still there in 1976. But by 1978 the hotel was being redeveloped and the Proctor was gone. W&R then said that the IAM was interested in it. The Air Britain Percival survey seems to record it as being with a Mr Bedford in 2003. Can anyone add to this?
G-AHWO is in Eire, dismantled in secure storage at a location I can’t specify, but is relatively complete and will be statically restored in due course. I visited the owner earlier this year and saw the very well preserved rudder which has recently been reunited with the aeroplane after years in separate ownership.
Tom E’s site linked in post 5 , was a useful guide to survivors but looks not to have been updated with more recent intelligence available for some years. So far as I know only minor components of EI-ACV may survive.
Tim
By: wieesso - 25th December 2010 at 10:55
Thank you, Martin. And a very happy Christmas to you.
…and to you too!
This is from the book: ‘Ireland’s first commercial airline’ by Michael Traynor
By: avion ancien - 25th December 2010 at 10:36
Thank you, Martin. And a very happy Christmas to you.
By: wieesso - 25th December 2010 at 09:58
EI-AMV Oct 16, 1963 fatal accident at Stowting
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=66520
EI-ACV Celbridge Stored
http://www.atlanticdhg.com/TOM/survivors.htm
G-AHWO
Wed May 20, 2009 12:31 pm
“Its twenty years since we lifted it from the Crofton Airport Hotel.”
Wed May 20, 2009 8:49 pm
“Philip has the Proctor off site.”
http://www.flyinginireland.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4102
By: G-ASEA - 25th December 2010 at 09:49
[QUOTE=avion ancien;1680088]I assume that you mean EI-ALY.
Yes you are right.
Dave
By: avion ancien - 25th December 2010 at 09:35
EI-AIY not taken up DBR landing at Dublin 3.64 as G-AHWO.
I assume that you mean EI-ALY. That one was the ‘I’ve got an aeroplane on me hotel roof’ Proctor! The fuselage was on the roof of the Crofton Airport Hotel, Whitehall, by 1974. It was still there in 1976. But by 1978 the hotel was being redeveloped and the Proctor was gone. W&R then said that the IAM was interested in it. The Air Britain Percival survey seems to record it as being with a Mr Bedford in 2003. Can anyone add to this?
By: G-ASEA - 25th December 2010 at 07:27
Taken from ‘The Civil Aircraft Registers of Great Britain 1919-1998’
EI-AIY not taken up DBR landing at Dublin 3.64 as G-AHWO.
EI-AMY crashed at Stowting, Kent 16.10.64
EI-AJR scrapped at Kidlington, Oxfordshire. Cancelled 9.9.57
EI-ACX scrapped at Weston. Cancelled 20.7.60
EI-ACV Cancelled 11.3.66
Hope thats of some help.
Dave
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