I have been sent this very interesting photo via Ivor Ramsden of the Manx Aviation Museum. The photo shows The prototype AS Ferry G-ABSI with the three Gipsy Majors when she had been impressed as AV968 presumably in 1940 when she was Haltons Stn Flt hack, Apparently the photo wasn’t taken in at Jurby. This machine went into storage during 1941 and ended up going to the ATC in Long Eaton only a short distance from where I write.
I understand this was taken by a U/T pilot who soloed with an EFTS on a Tiger Moth G-ADGX (BB698) and was later killed with 14 OTU in a Hampden.
Can anyone tell me which EFTS this Tiger served with. The Tiger was eventually written off in 1953.
John
Manx Aviation Museum
By: cthornburg - 18th January 2011 at 22:34
Impressment Log. Index doesn’t say Part V but is 12 pages long.
Chris
By: John Aeroclub - 18th January 2011 at 22:23
Mike thanks for the offer. I have Vols 1 and IV. I thought you might appreciate this one.
Cheers
John
By: avion ancien - 18th January 2011 at 21:32
John, if you’re looking for information re. impressed aircraft, please let me know because I managed, some years ago, to buy all four volumes (yes, I know some say that there are five – but I believe the fifth to be an index volume only) of the A-B Impressments Log from a chap in the USA.
By: John Aeroclub - 18th January 2011 at 21:16
Tim
Thank you this is precisely the info I wanted. I have loads of DH and Tiger related material but not this impressment log.
Thanks again.
John
By: Consul - 18th January 2011 at 19:56
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I understand this was taken by a U/T pilot who soloed with an EFTS on a Tiger Moth G-ADGX (BB698) and was later killed with 14 OTU in a Hampden.
Can anyone tell me which EFTS this Tiger served with. The Tiger was eventually written off in 1953………….
John
Air-Britain’s “Impressments Log Vol.II” mentions Tiger Moth G-ADGX as impressed as BB698 and the following is an extract of part the fuller history given in that source:
“17/9/40 Brooklands Aviation Ltd. Used by No.6 EFTS until 1942, when it transferred to RAF Doncaster on August 9th.”
The subsequent military history makes no further mention of other EFTS use after its term at Sywell. It was restored to the civil register in 1951 and w.o. at Thruxton in 1953.
Tim
By: John Aeroclub - 18th January 2011 at 14:16
And a very odd roundel position on the fuselage.
John
By: DaveF68 - 18th January 2011 at 13:03
Interesting pic John, especiually as she still carries her civil registration
By: John Aeroclub - 18th January 2011 at 12:45
Bump. For the Tiger.
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