2 unidentified Fuselages at Blackpool airport…

I was sure, in that we were paid out by the insurance as a total loss.

If you are correct it may have become LY-AOZ, and since then G-CBMI.

That’s brightened my day. Thank you.

Moggy

RA 02050- LY-AOZ- G-CBMI are all the same a/c with cn 855907

regards,
jack…

ps. sorry Moggy if I brought back bad/sad memories…

BTW…why did this thread originally call the airframe UN-1Ds?[/QUOTE]

Late night, eagerness, and stubby fingers…

regards,
jack…

You sure? I seem to recall it going to Lithuania for major repairs, then back to the UK?

I was sure, in that we were paid out by the insurance as a total loss.

If you are correct it may have become LY-AOZ, and since then G-CBMI.

That’s brightened my day. Thank you.

Moggy

Too bad the Great Lakes isn’t in the U.S., it might find a buyer.
Vintage (as opposed to the new build aircraft) GL have a good reputation among “antiques” and would probably find a home fairly easily. That’s what happens when items stray too far from home, the number of people interested in them drop.

BTW…why did this thread originally call the airframe UN-1Ds?

… savaged it terminally.
Moggy

You sure? I seem to recall it going to Lithuania for major repairs, then back to the UK?

Actually landing, not taking off, as it happens.

Indeed.

I was several hundred miles away at the time and the group pilot who had taken the aircraft (Yak 52 RA02050) to the fly-in was luckily just walking away having parked it and wasn’t alongside the aircraft when the biplane savaged it terminally.

Moggy

What has happened to the younger generation? In my sprog spotting days, we knew every aircraft that was on our local airfield (even if the doors were locked). Every airfield should have a resident ‘historian in training mode!’

Actually landing, not taking off, as it happens.

”The pilot was landing on an 800 metre grass Runway 26 which was flat, and well mown. The
surface wind was 300°/05 kt and the temperature plus 25°C. The pilot was unfamiliar with the
airfield, this being the first time that he had visited it. The approach was uneventful, but the aircraft
bounced on landing.

The pilot held the control column fully back expecting the aircraft to settle.
However, on the subsequent touchdown, the aircraft again bounced and swung to the left. The pilot
applied power in an attempt to regain directional control, but the aircraft continued to veer to the
left and collided with a parked aircraft.”

https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/great-lakes-2t-1a-g-biiz-8-august-1998

Here’s a photograph of the offender at Old Warden in July 1981. To the best of my recollection it didn’t plough into anything or one that day!

Some more photos of G-BIIZ here………

http://www.abpic.co.uk/results.php?q=G-BIIZ&fields=all&sort=latest&limit=10

So the UN-1D was actually a 2T-1A?

I’ll get my coat.

Oo err …..

What possibly could have caused the pilot of the Great Lakes to do something so inconsiderate? Had you, in your inimitable fashion, slapped down one of his posts on this forum?

Pictures Moggy? Remember if there are no photos it didn’t happen! 😀

Steve

1929 Great Lake’s 2T-1A registered G-BIIZ, reported as involved in a “before take off accident in 1998”

I’ll say.

The bloody thing ploughed into my aircraft.

Moggy

The Repertoire website also lists a donor airframe which must be the other one in the photo.
http://www.repertoirecollectables.co.uk/aaircraft.html

Some other interesting projects available as well as many parts id anyone’s looking for spares

Ex-Patrick Lindsay Warner powered Great Lakes on the right…..for sale for some time by PPS, Booker

Thank you civil aero, I’ve searched PPS and under Repertoire Collection there’s a picture it’s a 1929 Great Lake’s 2T-1A registered G-BIIZ, reported as involved in a “before take off accident in 1998”, and states “is unique in Europe as the only original 2T-1A” also the 2nd frame is a complete serviceable donor frame. As there was no sign of the wings at Blackpool, hopefully they are being restored as it has been registered to Airborne Adventures ltd. IOM on 4/4/16…

regards,
jack…

Ex-Patrick Lindsay Warner powered Great Lakes on the right…..for sale for some time by PPS, Booker

hi,
visiting Squires Gate yesterday and in 1 of the hangar’s were 2 fuselage frames, both similar they looked old build not modern frames, 1 had a skid on , both seemed to be two seater’s, 1 had a couple of panels on and were white there also was a white cowl with 6 blue diamonds evenly spaced (colour scheme?)and a incomplete radial engine on a pallet. There was also a darkish blue cowl for a radial engine, near the other fuselage. The man showing me around didn’t know anything about them and when I last visited last October they were not there, anyone know anything about them?

regards,
jack…

Jack asked that I post this picture of said fuselages on his behalf….

Could the airframes be victims of Storm Katie?

Why not just post a photo? Or if you haven’t got one, go back and get one? The description given really doesn’t aid identification.