Wonderful news, bravo to all involved! What a thrill for the owner and restoration team(?).

Out of curiosity I looked up the CA-23 and it seems a very different beast! A planned supersonic twinjet?

Yes, a project that never got beyond a mockup stage though. Some plans and GA drawings, along with pics and reports still remain within the archives, now held by the Australian National Aviation Museum. The Sabre ended up taking precedence over the CA23, and there were many criticisms of the design from the British Ministry of Supply when the data was sent to them for assessment, yet EE took a number of design elements and popped them into the Lightning….