The former owner of G-AJRB could hardly shift his 5J1 for 3 grand iirc (no annual, Cirrus engine, had been sat outside for a few years).

Anyway (as the old argument goes) if an aeroplane could fly, it should…

Here’s one of ‘JRB in happier days, at the IAPC rally at Leicester East in 1978. Glad to hear that she is on the mend. Hope that one day I may see her in the warmer, bluer skies of my part of the world!