Airworthy Percivals

A related question, when I was a junior spotter I remember seeing in my 1969 CAM all those Provosts that were registered to someplace in Kilburn. Excuse my lack of memory but were they all eventually identified in Southern Rhodesia and were they related to the ones that were outside at Fairoaks round about the same time?

Sad Prince.

Looks better than I anticipated – is this a recent photo?

‘MLZ is another civil aircraft badly in need of a “Fairy Godmother”.

Does anyone have anything of it’s current situation?

Roger Smith.

Who said ‘G-AERO’? :rolleyes:

Try G-AERD. 😉

Percival D.3 Gull 6, C/No D.65, ex- HB-OFU (1937 new) brought to the UK by Cliff Lovell in 1977 who restored and registered it to the current colours, and purchased by the National Museum of Australia in 1986. Edgar Percival was an Aussie, for those puzzled by their need for a Gull, and the musem has an extensive Percival archive (Lock up your Mew Gulls). They also have a Proctor VH-FEP, but that remains in store, so I didn’t see it.

Thanks for the compliment on the pics!

Very nice photo of ‘G-AERO’ but the registration is false. What is the correct reg?

The real G-AERO was an Auster 5 that landed on HMS Illustrious and later HMCS Magnificent. It then migrated to New Zealand as ZK-AUX and crashed in 1999. Currently in store. 🙂

Sad Prince.

Hi folks,

Not airworthy, but rare – this is the Gull in the National Museum of Australia, normally in store, but brought out for an exhibition on in Canberra at the moment. It’s the object between the prototype Holden car (Australia’s first) and the giant Kewpie doll from the Sydney 2000 Olympics. 😀

Cheers

There is also a ex Zimbabwe Air Force Provost in the China Aviation Museum in Beijing.
(i have a pic of it at home)

Roger – it’s been there a few years ! Wreckology based but they also have a Spitfire FSM .

A museum at Sleap, an Air Museum???

Anyone know any more>

Roger Smith.

It’s at Sleap because her owner transported her there ! She is due to be assembled by the museum on site. She has no chance of ever flying again due to serious corrosion.She is not unloved or abandoned .

If anyone has anymore information on the Provost, such as whether the owners would be interested in having it displayed in a museum, i’d be interested to hear from them.

Thanks,

Tom.

I have just found out it came from the Bomber County Aviation Museum at Hemswell, so I can’t imagine why it is now at Sleap, unless for rebuild to fly perhaps?

Sorry Adbert, I stumbled across the photo, and have no more details.
I would say it is fast asleep, certainly not just having 40 winks.

Just a quick update-Provost WW388 is presently lying at Sleap, Shropshire
Photo P.Consterdine

..do you mean ‘lying asleep’? :rolleyes: Where did that come from, as not in the current W&R?

Just a quick update-Provost WW388 is presently lying at Sleap, Shropshire
Photo P.Consterdine

What a handsome chap flying that Prentice! I wonder who he is?

Jon 😉

I’ve got a couple of corrections for your list FL200. In it you have the following entry: TF-HGS Ae.57 Proctor 5 R Iceland I think you can more or less strike that off the survivors list, and it is not a candidate for restoration at the moment at least. It is in very small pieces and there are not very many of them 😮 But as we know, if there is an identity, everything is a possibility 😀

TF-VIB K.242 Proctor 1 R Reykjavik, Iceland This one, on the other hand, is a is a candidate for restoration but nothing has been started yet. About two years ago a friend of mine was about to start, but so far nothing has happened. All that remains are the wings and a few other bits and bobs, so a new fuse needs to be built more or less from scratch. It is very do-able, but drawings are a bit of a ******, but as I understand it, they have now been found in New Zealand. I think it would be more accurate to descripe the remains as Preserved, than under restoration.

Here’s one of G-APJB taken a couple of weeks ago:

Tom

Globex

AKIU is still owned by us and is still under restoration to airworthy condition however its very much a case of it’ll be finished when its finished..!

I believe the Q6 is still on the Isle of Man and still up for sale.

Tom.

Thanks for that list FL200 !
I thought I knew a thing or 2 about surviving percival aircraft, but there are heaps of airframes in there I knew nothing about.

Does anyone know how the restoration of Proctor G-AKIU is coming along?
I thought it was owned by the air atlantique classic flight but it is not on their site anymore. 1 or 2 years ago it was supposed to by nearly airworthy but there hasn’t been any news since.
Same question with Q6 G-AFFD, Is that at Sywell now?