Buchon "Yellow 10" for Warbirds Over Wanaka Easter 2016

http://www.warbirdsoverwanaka.com/aircraft_146.html

I’m now seriously thinking about going to this show, it will obviously be some time before the Pay Buchon will be flying!

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This particular aircraft (Variant HA-1112 MIL Buchon) was given the construction number 223 when built by Hispano Aviacion in Seville in 1959.

This aircraft was one of 27 purchased from the Spanish Air Force by Spitfire Productions for use in the 1968 film “Battle of Britain”. By now registered as G-AWHK, this Buchon was then shipped to Texas where it flew briefly before being placed on static display in 1971 with the Confederate Air Force in Detroit. Acquired by the Old Flying Machine Company, it arrived at Duxford in 1996, re-registered as G-BWUE. The aircraft was marked up as Hauptmann Werner Schroer’s Bf109G-2/trop “Red 1” which he flew whilst serving on the Greek island of Rhodes in 1943.

In 2006, G-BWUE moved back to Duxford to be maintained by the Aircraft Restoration Company. Appearing regularly at airshows in the UK, it also appeared in “Hindenburg”, and “Valkyrie” starring Tom Cruise. Now owned by Historic Flying Ltd., G-BWUE has been painted as Messerschmitt “Yellow 10” as it appeared in the classic war film, “Battle of Britain”.