June 4, 2010 at 10:24 pm
This was a wartime Tiger taken onto the civil register postwar by Rollason and sold to the Thai Navy. Did it have any civilian existence or was this purely part of a paper trail? Do any photographs exist?
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th June 2010 at 23:43
Details for G-AMEG………….. C/n 84187 Cowley built RAF Serial T 7809.
Registered 20 Sept 50 to Rollasons. Cancelled as “sold abroad” 18 Jan 51.
This was one of a number of Tigers that passed through Rollasons in late 1950 / early 1951 destined for the Royal Thai Navy.
As indicated above the registration marks may have been chalked onto the airframe for a ferry flight.
Planemike……………
By: piston power! - 5th June 2010 at 17:21
In 1950, the Royal Thai Air Force purchased thirty Supermarine Spitfire XIV from the
United Kingdom, comprising twenty-four F14E model and six FR14E model, at a cost of
£16,340 each, designated Fighter Type 14. Four of PR19 reconnaissance version were purchased in 1954.
Wouldn’t it be great to build a time machine…………..:D
By: Graham Boak - 5th June 2010 at 14:50
Thanks for the help. With only four months on the register, it’s unlikely to have carried more than a rough scrawl of a registration, if that. Ah well.
By: wieesso - 5th June 2010 at 06:21
no photo showing G-AMEG but a Thai Tiger Moth
http://www.rtaf.mi.th/museum/RTAF%202491-2500%20En.pdf
scroll down to p.5
maybe interesting
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AMEG.pdf
http://www.thai-aviation.net/military-RTN.htm