Serendipity is a funny thing. I don’t know how many times I’ve consulted my old editions of ‘Wrecks & Relics’ but it wasn’t until today that I came across, in the footnotes to the Third Edition (1968), a reference to Avro Prefect G-AHVO. This reads as follows:

‘Avro Prefect G-ANVO [ which evidently should read G-AHVO as G-ANVO was an Avro York!] the fuselage of which was last reported in Ramsgate, Kent, after the aircraft had been dismantled at Hastings circa 1955’.

Does anyone know anything about this Prefect being in the Ramsgate area (perhaps at the now defunct aerodrome) in the second half of the 1950s?