As a teenager, I remember seeing an old Pembroke sitting next to the Club House at Booker Airfield.
It was there for years and gradually sank into the grass!
One day – and whilst I was there learning to glide (I’m guessing 1979) there was a lot of activity around it and the props started to turn.
I’ve never seen so much smoke from a plane before or since!
Anyhow – at full throttle the Pembroke stuck fast, and the Fire Truck Land Rover connected up.
These memories were stirred by the discovery of these pictures yesterday.
Out of curiosity, can anyone shed some light on what happened to this plane please?
The photographs are too poor to identify the number.
Many thanks.
By: George - 18th March 2018 at 18:30
Thank you all. I made contact with them earlier and await a reply. I will forward any information – but it sounds like it will indeed fly again.
By: Newforest - 18th March 2018 at 15:28
As you seem to be much in the ‘know’, any chance of a photo?? !!
By: Prince Thomas - 18th March 2018 at 15:16
The Pembroke N2692U (c/n 76 ex XF796 and G-BFKK) is still hangared at Carrollton/West Georgia Regional Airport, GA. Owner is Giuseppe Baldassarri who is slowly getting it flyable.
By: mjr - 18th March 2018 at 01:24
It was there for at least 5-10 years, and did circuits a few times a year up until 2002. I personally saw it, and did some work on it in 2004 at Carollton in a hangar. Owned by an Italian business man and private pilot with various aircraft, the Pembroke was undergoing restoration. It was still at Carollton in 2006, when we sent out a brand new fin from the UK for it to replace the one on the aircraft. The fin was promptly written off by the inept ground handlers at Delta, Atlanta, when they put a fork lift through the packing case! What happened to the aircraft after that, no idea, but suspect Mr Baldecera still owns it.
By: Newforest - 17th March 2018 at 18:45
My best guess is that the aircraft is at or was at Gray Field/West Georgia Regional Airport. This is a small very friendly airport with the cheapest gas in the area. It does not look too busy from the photo, but looks are deceiving. There are 15 twin engine aircraft based, no further details! If there, it presumably would be in a hangar, the manager’s phone number is mentioned, why not give her a call?! Except, if you check the link below, there is a marker near a hangar which when clicked says P.66. Sound familiar?!
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/LocationDossier.php?Serial=11038
By: George - 17th March 2018 at 18:04
Thanks for your memories and research. Appreciated. As you say – I wonder where it is now?
By: Newforest - 17th March 2018 at 12:41
Registration is correct, status of aircraft is ‘valid’ and the permit expiry is 31/7/2020. Carollton Municipal airport is long gone, but I don’t think it was ever there, so where is it now?
By: Tin Triangle - 17th March 2018 at 12:01
XF796 – Demobbed has it as N2692U at somewhere called Carrollton in Georgia, but last info 2005…
By: Propstrike - 17th March 2018 at 08:44
I remember that one. It also lingered at White Waltham, and I recall a bright Feb day in the nineties when it taxied around, carving huge ruts in the wet grass.
It was owned by the Fraser family, who also owned Anson WD413 ( now G-VROE) . The Pembroke G-BFKK ended up in Georgia (USA) and may still be there. At least it was not wrecked by the drug-runners, who trashed most of the ex Belgium Air Force Pembrokes which went to the States.
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