I remember an organisation from many years ago, maybe the 80`s? called the British Air Reserve? I joined them briefly and even had a tour of a hangar near Hastings? when they had a Fury in there they were talking of restoring along with a few other airframes.
Sadly the years have lost my photographs of that day and I lost track of them when I left for overseas.
Anyone else remember them and what happened?
By: Consul - 21st January 2018 at 21:26
The Sea Fury involved was of course G-SALY (WJ288) which ended up in the USA.
By: Sabrejet - 21st January 2018 at 18:55
I too recall that G-SIXA was supposedly a BAR target: 3C-ABA/G-BLSW too? I recall that Trans Air Link ended up taking most of the useful bits of ‘SIXA.
By: Mothminor - 21st January 2018 at 18:15
The book “Vampires And Fleas…” by Alec Brew states that there was also a plan to buy DC-6B G-SIXA and operate it on charter flights “although this proved a scheme too far.”
By: David Burke - 21st January 2018 at 17:31
From memory they had ideas on Gannet WN411 – building a Hornet and the restoration of Fiat G-46. All under Patrick Luscombe – his main claim to fame now is the Luscombe Rattler displayed at NAM.
By: Wyvernfan - 21st January 2018 at 16:12
I remember them. They started to take the Sea Fury apart with the expensive idea of making an attempt on the piston engine airspeed record – and then ran out of money, if my memory serves me right?!
Rob
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January 21, 2018 at 3:29 pm