By: SADSACK - 6th November 2018 at 20:38
Makes you wonder which other Spitfires have donated bits to her?
By: SqL Scramble. - 5th November 2018 at 22:31
Seems a shame, given her connection with the 306th BG and the Bedfordshire connection. She has flown previously with clipped wings and the NN code.
Wasn’t AR501 converted for low altitude performance (and thus the wing tips ‘clipped’) in November 1944, meaning that prior to this she carried the full wing, including during her service with 312 Squadron?
By: Fournier Boy - 5th November 2018 at 22:13
Yes, most wanted it to fly with it’s clipped wings, to be accurate it wears the correct DU codes. If it goes back to NN, the big tips go on. The letters are indeed stick on allowing changes from one season to the next.
correct exhausts for period were considered, but with manufacturing costs starting at £25k and up, unless you want to start a collection pot and donate that amount, it’s not going to happen.
it is a charity at the end of the day, and although £25k doesn’t seem much in the grand scheme of things, consider all the aircraft, cars, buses, bikes and buildings the charity have to support and it evokes evident that it was a nice thing to have, but not at that cost
FB
By: Bradburger - 5th November 2018 at 22:01
I seem to recall reading that the codes are actually vinyl ones, and therefore can be changed easily should the collection want to represent a different squadron that she served with.
But I agree with Sadsack, it’s nice to represent one of the other squadrons she flew under.
And that is also the reason the collection has gone back to having clipped wings, as that how she was configured whilst with 312 Sqn.
I hope that one day the collection has the financing available to fit siamese exhausts, (and maybe even the correct cannon extension shrouds as well), which would have her looking at her most authentic for that period of her life.
Cheers
Paul
By: SADSACK - 5th November 2018 at 21:30
Time for her to represent other areas of her career, after nearly 50 years as NN
By: MK959 - 5th November 2018 at 21:10
Very unlikely. Her rebuild has just been finished and the paint is ‘new’. The current colors are accurate and were wore when she was flying with 312 Sqn.
By: SADSACK - 10th February 2017 at 20:47
re:
The article is full of errors, but the pictures are good! The aircraft was rebuilt to fly in the early 70s and overhauled again in the 90s.. she was in my first ever Flypast. Well done to the team though.
By: Pen Pusher - 10th February 2017 at 19:31
Just seen a photo of it taken this afternoon, but it’s on Facebook.
Brian
By: scotavia - 10th February 2017 at 17:53
And a very shaky flying bomb replica from the film Operation Crossbow..
By: DazDaMan - 10th February 2017 at 16:59
Thats me !
Sorry Thread Hijack,
Back on AR501Was the the Spitfire sitting outside on the grass with a Hurricane in the early 70s in PR Blue?
PL983.
By: Mark12 - 10th February 2017 at 16:56
No.
By: Trolly Aux - 10th February 2017 at 16:52
Thats me !
Sorry Thread Hijack,
Back on AR501
Was the the Spitfire sitting outside on the grass with a Hurricane in the early 70s in PR Blue?
By: Moggy C - 10th February 2017 at 16:46
^^^ Trouble maker ^^^
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By: Trolly Aux - 10th February 2017 at 16:44
So you wont be looking at any more Lancaster updates on the ARCo Facebook page then?
Brian
Greeat update again https://www.facebook.com/arco/
By: Trolly Aux - 10th February 2017 at 16:42
Well Brian I think it was your goodself that supplied the link, I had tried to find more info but unfortunately it does not come up in google, so once the link was supplied I used it to aid others who like myself do not use it due to what I have previously said.
Aha, I was correct in my assumption that AR501 had not flown since 2006. and all without the aid of FACEBOOK !
By: Pen Pusher - 10th February 2017 at 16:28
Be careful someone will tell you the answer is on FACEBOOK and how stupid you are to ask that question here on an Historic aeroplane forum.
So you wont be looking at any more Lancaster updates on the ARCo Facebook page then?
Brian
By: Arabella-Cox - 10th February 2017 at 16:24
This was from September 3rd 2006, and I believe the beginning of the strip down.
By: scotavia - 10th February 2017 at 16:20
Great history here….https://fcafa.com/2011/06/16/spitfire-ar501/
and arecent news item answers your question here ..http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-team-at-the-shuttleworth-collection-in-old-warden/story-30109558-detail/story.html
By all means ask,but you can also have fun looking at google yourself which is where I found the info and alot more…
By: Trolly Aux - 10th February 2017 at 16:01
Be careful someone will tell you the answer is on FACEBOOK and how stupid you are to ask that question here on an Historic aeroplane forum.
Sorry I cannot help but someone will be along soon to give you the date
In my head I thought it was 2006, but surely its not been that long?
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