By: Arabella-Cox - 24th February 2009 at 10:17
My two dustbins flew down the road in recent high winds.
I’m gonna register them with the CAA.
By: Mark12 - 24th February 2009 at 09:38
I remember a few years ago someone registered a cast-iron manhole cover with the CAA.
Yes, and I suspect it is/was a more credible flying venture than the ‘Spitfire’ in question here “ML411″/G-CBNU.
Mark
By: Bograt - 23rd February 2009 at 10:12
(Ian – Tamils flying the odd suicide mission around Colombo the night before last. They tried to take out the Air Force HQ flying Czech built Zlin Trainers packed with explosives…without success…they hit the tax office!)
Now I would pay £575 per share in a Zlin to take out my tax office!!
By: mackerel - 22nd February 2009 at 21:32
There is a mk9 about to be auctioned at Hendon by Bonhams, served at Lyneham, and then South Africa, couldn’t get the reg no.
wulf190a
That will be SM520 a T9 rebuilt at Thruxton & the Isle of Wight .
Steve
By: DazDaMan - 22nd February 2009 at 18:37
I think that’s SM520/G-ILDA. I did see that somewhere, but don’t quote me on it…
By: wulf190a - 22nd February 2009 at 18:30
There is a mk9 about to be auctioned at Hendon by Bonhams, served at Lyneham, and then South Africa, couldn’t get the reg no.
wulf190a
By: cas - 22nd February 2009 at 11:54
(Ian – Tamils flying the odd suicide mission around Colombo the night before last. They tried to take out the Air Force HQ flying Czech built Zlin Trainers packed with explosives…without success…they hit the tax office!)
“without success” ??
maybe they could try here and with luck hit number 10 or a tax office.:diablo:
By: Mark12 - 22nd February 2009 at 11:03
G-TCHI, BS410 Spitfire Mk IXT.
http://www.somme-aviation-39-45.fr/pages/Occoches/Galerie%20Pieces/index.html
Is this the a/c offering shares?
No. Different machine.
BS410 has full 100% ‘thin but robust’ provenance.
A very nice section of the original rear fuselage bearing the serial exists.
Mark
(Ian – Tamils flying the odd suicide mission around Colombo the night before last. They tried to take out the Air Force HQ flying Czech built Zlin Trainers packed with explosives…without success…they hit the tax office!)
By: mackerel - 21st February 2009 at 23:27
G-TCHI, BS410 Spitfire Mk IXT.
http://www.somme-aviation-39-45.fr/pages/Occoches/Galerie%20Pieces/index.html
Is this the a/c offering shares?
Pretty sure you wont be able to buy a share in this one !!!
Steve
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st February 2009 at 15:50
‘Shame to spoil a single seater.
Prospective shareholders should be aware that the rear cockpit weight limit is 200lbs.
I think that weight limitations ought to be the very least of any prospective investors considerations! In fact….if you weigh just over 14 stone or in excess of 40 in this particular case then I rather suspect it will not make one iota of difference in the final analysis.
By: Jim_Harley - 21st February 2009 at 15:43
What if? What if the “instructor” weighs less then 200 and flies from the back seat? Would this not open the possibilities up to larger clientle?
jim harley
By: low'n'slow - 21st February 2009 at 12:25
I remember a few years ago someone registered a cast-iron manhole cover with the CAA.
It’s most unfair to refer to the FRED like that. It only glides like one!! 😀
By: zouzy86 - 21st February 2009 at 11:01
By: MerlinPete - 21st February 2009 at 09:53
The company has been registered since 2005 but has not been trading since 2007.
Pete
By: Speedy - 21st February 2009 at 09:30
‘Shame to spoil a single seater.
Prospective shareholders should be aware that the rear cockpit weight limit is 200lbs.
By: Propstrike - 21st February 2009 at 09:22
Well the aircraft is registered with the CAA. 🙂
Mark
I remember a few years ago someone registered a cast-iron manhole cover with the CAA.
That project also needed unusual ammounts of optomism to take to the skies.
By: merlin70 - 21st February 2009 at 08:58
G-TCHI, BS410 Spitfire Mk IXT.
http://www.somme-aviation-39-45.fr/pages/Occoches/Galerie%20Pieces/index.html
Is this the a/c offering shares?
By: Mark12 - 21st February 2009 at 08:33
Well the aircraft is registered with the CAA. 🙂
Mark
By: EN830 - 21st February 2009 at 08:31
In the words of Groucho Marx…
Does MK 12 have any information?
I promised myself years ago I’d never buy a Spitfire/Seafire without his blessing. :D[/I]
Last heard of, ducking Tamil bombs in Colombo !!!
By: Yak 11 Fan - 21st February 2009 at 00:45
Sounds a good deal to me.:rolleyes:
Will the resulting 2 seat spitfire have a set of undercarrage doors?
Or is that an optional extra?
Maybe its all in the information pack.
Then again……
The undercarriage doors are valued at around £750k per side these days, so that makes £11.5k for the rest of it seem about right…
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February 20, 2009 at 4:26 pm