Sea Vixen G-CVIX – What's the latest?

Lt Cdr Matt Whitfield RN – a serving Fleet Air Arm pilot who flies the Hawks at RNAS Yeovilton and is also one of the RNHF’s Sea Hawk pilots.

Thanks stringbag.. sounds like the old girl will be in safe hands..!;)

Rob.

Thats a shame Brian is retireing, have really enjoyed some of his displays so many thanks to him and all the best.
Incidentally who will be flying Foxy lady in the future.?

Lt Cdr Matt Whitfield RN – a serving Fleet Air Arm pilot who flies the Hawks at RNAS Yeovilton and is also one of the RNHF’s Sea Hawk pilots.

XP924 flew a successful shake-down sortie today at Hurn. This was Brian Grant’s final flight as pilot of the Sea Vixen. 😀

Thats a shame Brian is retireing, have really enjoyed some of his displays so many thanks to him and all the best.
Incidentally who will be flying Foxy lady in the future.?

Great news Mark, also good to see the pylon mounted airstarter working 😎

XP924 flew a successful shake-down sortie today at Hurn. This was Brian Grant’s final flight as pilot of the Sea Vixen. Further details and lots of pics can be found on the DHA website 😀

De Havilland Aviation have been very busy in recent months moving to alternative accommodation at Hurn. I see that they’ve just launched a new website at:
http://www.dehavillandaviation.com/file/Home.html

Things are looking promising for a successful 2009 featuring plenty of displays. Let’s all hope so as G-CVIXXP924 is a fantastic a/c.

Nick, you have a PM.

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I’ve no inside info but I see that it’s down to fly at the Yeovilton airshow on July 11.

Chris