Arriving at Liverpool / Speke / John Lennon

Errr.. I’ve not seen that down at the GA park or in Keenair’s hangar. It must be with either Ravenair or I need glasses!

I’ll have a poke around next time I get the chance. I’m trying hard to remember what aircraft George was flying last time I saw him.

I would say it`s a Falco F8L G-OGKB

Many thanks. That now seems to be the weight of opinion.

Moggy 🙂

It’s definitely a Falco; the fuselage “split” behind the cockpit/wing structure is a very characterising feature of this lovely aircraft.

I knew someone in Denmark who had a rare Laverda-built example of this aircraft (had a flight in it as well…), acquired all the Sequoia brochures (the company which very likely provided the kit for the depicted aircraft) and followed Stephen Wilkinson’s reports in “Pilot” on building this aircraft. A Norwegian Falco builder crossed the Atlantic in 1993 to attend Oshkosh!

If I remember correctly you actually build the thing in more or less one piece and when it’s time to move the aircraft you saw off the tailcone, thereby aiming very accurately between bulkheads provided for this very purpose.. 😮

Moggy all sounds good to me (as if I know), couple of pics from the web may help ! Falco F8L.

Moggy C
I would say it`s a Falco F8L G-OGKB PFA100-12153 owned by G K Brothwood and has been underconstruction at Liverpool / Speke airport since 12/11/2006 when it arrived by road.
I may be wrong ,but it`s a good possablity.
Rgds G-ANPK

……Apologies if not ‘Historic’ Moggy

Surely any aeroplane with that amount of timber in it is ‘historic’ 😀 😀

Roger Smith.

Falco is the popular guess. I just wondered if it was anything to do with the growing selection of preserved aircraft at the old terminal.

Moggy

Unless there’s going to be flaps in that gap too I’d say it’s something aerobatic with ailerons of that span and chord. Having said that it looks like side by side seating given the width of the fuselage, how about a Falco seeing as it’s made of wood? Sorry if I’ve raised more questions but that’s about all I can think of.

Just a thought…

Is it a Europa???

Regards
Steve

The new Angel of the North West?

Sorry Moggy 😮

Paul F