Ex RAFG Glider in evilbay

Thanks for your corrections.
I changed the list accordingly.
And I could find some more photos in TRGC – Facebook group.
Two Rivers Gliding Club – The Silent Squadron

Great to see these pictures! I delivered Swallow 539 last month to Laarbruch – be great to see her back in the red or blue ! For interest sake Ka3 owneed by LS Hood is under rebuild in the U.K at present.

Made a list and tried to collect information about the gliders of Two Rivers Gliding Club at Laarbruch.
Please take a look. Should you find any mistakes, wrong photos etc don’t hesitate to inform me.
There are some questionmarks in the list, Some photos are missing.

Two Rivers GC – The Silent Squadron

557: the photo is not of Ventus RAFGSA.557, but of a Standard Libelle 201B.

What type of glider is the Laarbruch Listener title showing? Is it an Astir?

No. It’s a Ventus c. Trigraph 210 should be relatively easy to tie to BGA or RAFGSA registration.

That is not an Astir. Not really sure what it is though.. Looks like a Ventus to me.

Made a list and tried to collect information about the gliders of Two Rivers Gliding Club at Laarbruch.
Please take a look. Should you find any mistakes, wrong photos etc don’t hesitate to inform me.
There are some questionmarks in the list, Some photos are missing.

Two Rivers GC – The Silent Squadron

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What type of glider is the Laarbruch Listener title showing? Is it an Astir?

The advert was at the start of the year -it might well have disappeared.

Help! I cannot get the eBay link. It is bringing up an Eddie Stobart truck model.

Add another one to your list:
RAFGSA.258, a Gö.4 II s/n 6060 (license-built by Fokker in 1948). The former PH-178 that became BGA.1642 afterwards. Was flown from RAF Brueggen in the 1960s. Identity not 100 percent confirmed, but pretty sure.

Thanks for the quick answer.
On the museum website I assembled all the Laarbruch related crashes and fatal crashes.
Fatal crashes

If you do not want to give the name here, I would appreciate a private message. [email]hwk95301@live.de[/email]

Meanwhile I had a look at the Laarbruch Listener magazines of the following months but I couldn’t find anything about this accident.

I don’t know whether it is appropriate for me to post the name of the pilot but I think this accident involved Grob G-102 Astir CS RAFGGA 511 which spun in killing the female pilot.

Searching old newspapers I found an article about a glider crash.
A glider from Laarbruch crashed near a house at Weeze on Sunday, August 16, 1987 around 3 p.m. The female pilot (29) was killed in the crash.
She had started from RAF Laarbruch. So perhaps she belonged to Two Rivers Gliding Club” The article stated she was English, an experienced pilot who had flown gliders for years.

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Sorry, the articles are from a German newspaper.
I’m still trying to find more information in the Laarbruch Listener magazine.

Does anyone recall this fatal accident?

A few more to add to the list:

504 Schleicher Ka 6CR; D Woodcock, Brüggen by .84; damaged 7/8.86

Does anybody know what became of this? It was severely damaged in an off-field landing near Maashees (Netherlands) July 30th, 1986 when sideslipped into the ground (have seen pictures). Would be interested to see what happened to it…

589 is a Raab Doppelraab 7 (s/n 02), it was built by a German club from plans in 1955, first flew as D-5391 before ‘going RAF’. It was languising at Laarbruch in the 1980s when rescued by a gentleman from The Netherlands who beautifully restored it to fly as D-5391. It has been in secure storage near my home for some years now as he has too many aiorplanes and too little time.

520 is Ka.6Cr s/n 6222, the former 6222. I have a write-off date of 6Apr1976, which would make a lot more sense since in 1974 it was still flying in The Netherlands.

A few more to add to the list:

196 Schleicher ASW 20BL (20694); J Duncan, Brüggen .86; to BGA 3266 2.87
504 Schleicher Ka 6CR; D Woodcock, Brüggen by .84; damaged 7/8.86
515 Schleicher Ka 6CR (6188) ex D-6151; N Kidd, Gütersloh .79; to BGA 2636 3.80
518 Schleicher Ka 6CR (6060) ex D-5187; 7.74; to BGA 2476 7.79
519 EoN Olympia 2B; by .64
522 Mayrhofer-Diessner MD.1 (1) ex D-1719; Nimbus GC by .62; to BGA 1213 9.64
522 Schleicher K 8B (1) ex D-0322; Two Rivers GC by .81; to BGA 3157 4.85
535 Grunau Baby II; Nimbus GC by .65
545 Schleicher ASW 20 (20376) ex D-8780; C Heames & synd, Brüggen .88; to BGA 3419 3.89
548 Scheibe SF 26A Standard (5038) ex D-8454; to BGA 2608 2.80
557 Schleicher Ka 6CR (6301) ex D-5572; to BGA 3670 11.90
568 Schleicher K 7; Pegasus GC c.90
572 Schleicher Ka 6CR (6373Si) ex D-5725; A Killingray, Brüggen; to BGA 2287 9.77
611 Grob G103 Twin II (3709) ex D-2611; Eagle GC .87; to BGA 3835 1.92
712 Schempp-Hirth Standard Austria SH1 (61) ex F-OTAN-C3; Synd, Brüggen; w/o, Brüggen 28.4.68

Thanks for the pics, I hadn’t even thought that an owner from the time may be another forum member!

Here it is as D-8376. There is a photo of it as RAFGGA 537 attached at post 4.

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I don’t suppose anyone has a pic of the L-Spatz in Germany?

Typo

543 – BGA2104
544 – BGA2014

543/544 became one aircraft or typo?