The date for the two images of G-DAKS/’G-AGHY’ is Sunday 27th June 1982 – and the hangar shapes confirm absolutely for certain the location  is Liverpool and I can add that the occasion is an Air Display at Speke.

G-DAKS arrived at Liverpool Airport at 1124 on the Sunday morning from Woodford (where it had appeared in the RAFA Air display there the day before).  It departed Liverpool at 1500, performed a display routine and departed directly after for Duxford.  In 1982 Liverpool Airport was still active on the original ‘north’ airfield and the late 1930s Art Deco terminal was still in use.  In the images the aircraft is flying along the axis of runway 26, which although closed for landings and departures in April ’82 was re-activated for the day of the airshow.

The only other record I have for this aircraft in the 1980s being in Liverpool airspace is on Wednesday 30th September 1981 when it performed a go-around (at the time an overshoot) on runway 17 while en route through the air traffic zone and likely ATC requested a look at her, to which the crew obliged!

As I find I can ‘edit’, I’ll two images I have of ‘G.AGHY’ at the Liverpool Air Show in June 1982 tomorrow – it is a bit late now to go digging through the photofiles.