Enquiry about the TFC Beaufighter.

Hi All,
Sorry to drag an old thread up, just wondering about the TFC Beaufighter any news on that seeing as the CR.42 is coming along to the end of its journey ?

Geoff.

There are 2 full aircraft and 1 cockpit in Australia, just a shame you can’t get down here.

Thanks Consul. Pity, I’m quite sure I’m not the only one who hoped a Beau pair would be a possibility one day.

Thank you kindly, I got your email.

We have the email, assuming there are not two people wishing to film inside the beaufighter. Like all things in aeroplane restoration it just takes awhile for a reply 🙂 .

They may not have received the e mail .

Have you tried giving them a call? Might be the best way to get in touch. I’ve always found them to be very helpful guys (and girls!)

Fournier Boy – perhaps, but an answer out of courtesy, even to say ‘sorry you can’t film in it’ would be nice.
Moggy – yes money is an issue, as a student I don’t earn much so maybe that’s the issue.
Same reason I am having issue obtaining stock/archive footage!

The Moorabbin Beaufighter looks well cared for, but it’s too far away unfortunately. Thanks anyhow

Probably not a lot of use to you, depending what you had in mind. On a visit to Moorabbin Air Museum (Australia) in 2006, the staff at the museum kindly let me have a look inside the aircraft.

Graham

Beaufighter 04

Beaufighter 03

Beaufighter 05

Beaufighter 02

I’ve never had any great problem using TFC’s aircraft for photography. Finding the money was always the issue, clients don’t think that historic aircraft have any value. “We’ll credit them in the catalogue, that should be enough”

Jane Larcombe was very helpful when we did a fashion shoot there, though this must have been about ten years back..

Moggy

I think it’s probably safe to say that if you have written to them and they’ve not answered you, it’s probably safe to say you have your answer as to if they are willing to let you film there.

FB

EF Beau about three years ago;

I believe there is a Beaufighter cockpit at the Wings Museum at Balcombe in West Sussex, although I haven’t seen it myself, or seen any photos of it. The RAF Museum Beaufighter fuselage is now on loan to Aerospace Bristol at Filton.

Andrew

Tim Moore’s example was put up for sale some years back and SFAIK went to Australia.

The EF example was a great prospect but in depth work on it seems to have been shelved since the curatorial changes and the focus on Concorde as the main attraction etc.

The EF Beaufighter has been out of the public eye for a couple of years following the re-jig there. I hope they get it restored as the type is pertinent to the airfield. For several years it basically lay as a ‘field’ of parts in their restoration hangar in a very rough condition, so I wouldn’t hold your breath!

What happened to Tim Moore’s Beau is he still rebuilding her?

I emailed them a while back, but got nothing back. I thought asking a volunteer here might be more direct.
Besides, I thought asking on here might provide other options if the TFC one was off limits.

Why not ask TFC? Simplest way surely?

The Midland one looks good, very well restored. But the downside of that is, they probably wouldn’t want people going in it, I note it has a big perspex/glass sheet in front of it in the picture on the website.

Why not ask the Midland Air Museum at Coventry Airport. They have a cockpit (genuine, but purely the cockpit area)
http://www.midlandairmuseum.co.uk/explore.php