Firefly WB440

Bruce,

I tend to agree, even then believe the asking price for the last few years has been around £20K 😮

But then value is only what someone is prepared to pay i guess, so if ‘someone’ were dead keen on Firefly’s, and this has been (will be ?) the only chance to purchase one of the ex-Failsworth examples…. perhaps its time to extend the mortgage, bend the credit card or even sell a kidney :diablo:

As this was the example cosmetically restored with a Griffon and Gannet canopy and placed on display in the Manchester museum in the 80’s, maybe somebody has a photo from that period to compare with its current condition ?

Not a Gannet canopy but a Firefly MK7 canopy.

Off topic but what is happening to the Firefly at Duxford

In the queue at ARCo I believe…. and there’s two.

Off topic but what is happening to the Firefly at Duxford

James

Bruce,

I tend to agree, even then believe the asking price for the last few years has been around £20K 😮

But then value is only what someone is prepared to pay i guess, so if ‘someone’ were dead keen on Firefly’s, and this has been (will be ?) the only chance to purchase one of the ex-Failsworth examples…. perhaps its time to extend the mortgage, bend the credit card or even sell a kidney :diablo:

As this was the example cosmetically restored with a Griffon and Gannet canopy and placed on display in the Manchester museum in the 80’s, maybe somebody has a photo from that period to compare with its current condition ?

With the complete aircraft at Courtesy being up for about £56K stg, and it all being there, I struggle to see 14K of value in the aircraft mentioned.

The courtesy example has been for sale for ever – at least five years, with seemingly little interest; shame, it should be a good future project for the likes of RNHF.

I can buy a complete Vampire for £2.5K, which is after all the same era as the Firefly. I would estimate the value of this item as only a little more than that!

Bruce

forum project anyone? :diablo:

I’ll get me coat 😀

It’s hard to imagine that this is the same cockpit section which was restored, albeit cosmetically, by Fairey Engineering back in the late 1980’s and then displayed at the Manchester Air & Science Museum, it even had a Griffon attached on the front then.

Does he offer a dustpan and brush to collect it in as well??

😀 if i had the money i would go for the firefly project on Courtsey…

http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/

Does he offer a dustpan and brush to collect it in as well??

£14K and he wont let the p*xy little trolley go with it…