Anyone got any ideas about when the last flyable Defiant was finally grounded? If it was before 1971 I’ve definitely seen a ghost. Turned the hanger corner one morning at RR Hucknall and there on the pan was a Defiant with its Merlin ticking and clicking as it cooled. This is about 7am or thereabouts. When I ambled back to the office block at about midday the ‘Defiant’ had gone, I’d been outsie on an engine test bed all morning and didn’t see it depart. Problem is I’ve never found anyone else who recalls the damn thing landing nor has asking the question on various web sites elicited an answer. I have a vague recollection that Cranfield fielded a Defiant in the mid 1960’s but can’t swear to it
By: SADSACK - 12th November 2008 at 13:35
Black with Polish Air Force chequerboard markings on nose, turrett still in place but can’t remeber if it had guns in it. Your ‘Hurricane’ was the company Spitfire, sadly lost in an airshow accident some years later. Not many can w rite that can they ‘Company Spitfire’
Spitfire being The Mk 14 that crashed in 1992? how is it getting on progress wise?
By: Firebird - 11th November 2008 at 11:37
Well, according to the RAFM it’s Defiant made it’s last flight on 8th Sept 1944 when flown from 10MU to 52MU for crating up for future museum exhibition, and there’s no mention of it ever being at RR Hucknall.
By: DJ Jay - 10th November 2008 at 21:25
Sounds like the RAFM one. Was it’s engine run after it was painted and prepared for its permanently hangerage at Hendon?
Jay
By: prangster - 10th November 2008 at 19:38
Defiant to The Last
Black with Polish Air Force chequerboard markings on nose, turrett still in place but can’t remeber if it had guns in it. Your ‘Hurricane’ was the company Spitfire, sadly lost in an airshow accident some years later. Not many can w rite that can they ‘Company Spitfire’
By: SADSACK - 10th November 2008 at 16:43
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For a start, what colour was it? Black or camo? I was told that there was a Hurricane at Hucknall in the 1970s.
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