In preservation, what aircraft types have you worked on?

Aircraft I have skinned my knuckles on.

Avro 504
Avro Anson
Avro Lancaster
Avro Shackleton (All Mks)
Avro Vulcan (1st and 2nd Prototypes)
Canberra T4
Slingsby Tutor
Slingsby Tandem Tutor
C47
Grumman Tracker
Lockheed 12a
Westland Scout
Fairey Firefly
Bell UH1B
Boeing Stearman

David

– Skandinavisk Aero Industri KZ-IIT (a lot of work over a 5-year period)
– Spitfire, SAAB 17, SAAB J-29, DC-7C (cockpit), DH Dove & KZ-VII (minor items and cleaning/polishing)

Many years of service:
Lightning T5 XS452
Lightning T5 XS458

And have briefly touched upon:
Vampire
Buccaneer
Vulcan

Cockpits:
Sea Vixen
Jet Provost
Lightning

Scott.

Miles Magister and Buccaneer whilst on work experience. Extensive experience, right there. 😉 :rolleyes:

Spitfire
Fury
Mustang
Harvard
F4
Corsair
Knat

Virtually every RAF aircraft I worked on was a museum piece LOL:diablo:

Seriously though:

JP 3A
Chipmunk T10
Lightning T5
Stirling
Hurricane
Vampire T11 x2
Hornet
Canberra T22 & T17

John

Only worked on a few;

Lightning F.6
Wessex HU.5
Whirlwind HAR.10
Sycamore HR.14
Meteor T.7
Sea King HAS.6

Regards
Nigel

Missed this first time round so in chronological order starting in 1973:

Vampire
Anson
Prentice
Meteor FR.9
Swift
Shackleton
F100
T33
Mystere (x2 includes Midland’s aircraft, to get our battery back!:diablo:)
Skeeter
Whirlwind
Javelin
Meteor NF.12
Heron
Meteor F.4**
Buccaneer
Draken
MiG-27
Sea Harrier
Viggen

All except ** (now in store in Florida) are detailed here!

Whilst still in service / use:
Vampire T11
Canberra B(I)8 & T4
Victor 1A
Hunter (various)
Shackleton
Britannia
Argosy
Islander
Trislander
Lightning
Chupmink
Auster
Argosy
Heron
T21, T31, Oly 2B, Oly 461, Ka6, Eagle, Primary gliders

Out of service:
Sea Heron
DC3
DC6
Tiger Moth
Spitfire
Hurricane
Hornet Moth
Nord 262
Dove
Firecracker (Piston & Turbo)
Fieldmaster

and plenty of modern types

Favourites: Shackleton, Canberra & Spitfire.

Missed this too. And while my lady sleep on my shoulder and deployment looms, here goes:

Spitfire (Marks II, V, IX, XIV, XVI, XIX).
Hurricane Mk1 and Mk2
Lancaster
Dakota
Chipmunk
Hellcat
Wildcat
Tigercat
Bearcat
P-39
P-40 (B and M)
P-47
P-51 (B,D and TF models)
Hawk 75
Hawker Nimrod
FG-1D Corsair
Harvard

I’m sure my list is small by the standards of some employees at centres of warbird excellence, but the there’ll be one or two I’ve forgotten to mention. I’d love to see similar posts by the likes of Bentwing Bomber, Roobarb etc. Bring it on….!

C6

My list to date

Vampire x2
Venom
Sea Vixen
DH125
Comet (stripping the AEW one at Thurleigh when BRUCE made me get in those engine bays!:eek:
DH Heron

🙂

Not many for me but fun though.

Vulcan
Victor
Buccaneer
Comet
Iskra.

Spitfires (5, 8, 9, 11 & 14)
Hurricanes (TFC & MoF)
P40
Tempest
Bearcats
Tigercat (current)
Hellcat
Wildcat
T6/SNJs (current)
P63
B25s
A26s
B17
Stearmans (current)
N3N
Staggerwing (current)
Mustangs (current)
P47s
SeaFury
Yak
DC3 (current)
DC2 (current)
T28s
F82
F5s
T38s
Bf109 (White 14)
Corsair
P38
Jungmeister
Prince
Beech 18
Twin Bonanza

Reno birds:
RareBear
Stiletto (converted to TF51, now fying as Diamond Back)
DagoRed
Voodoo
RidgeRunner
RiskyBusiness
TheHealer
Strega
Miracle Maker
Miss Van Nuys
Miss America

Other 51’s:
Montana Miss
Flying Dutchman (current)
Man O War
The Rebel
Cottonmouth (current)
Candyman/Moose
Huntress III
Gunfighter
The Believer
Mustang Sally (current)

At Southend I helped rub down, mask and paint:-
Fiat G46
Saab J29
Sea Fury
Sea Hawk,
Provost
I helped strip paint from
Mitchell,
Lincoln,
Rubbed down and touched up the Heinkel (Casa),
Helped reassemble last parts of the Javelin,
Helped dismantle Anson G-AVVO to go to Newark
Recovered the control Surfaces on the Drover
Did a bit on the Storch tailplane
Stripped yards of Dayglo tape from the Meteor
Helped turn a massive jigsaw puzzle of struts and rigging wires into an Avro Triplane replica.
I am also a bit ashamed to admit that I had a hand in helping saw a Proctor in half! – but I was quite young then.
On the other hand I did help move Tango Charlies Proctor from Lavenham to his workshop so perhaps I redeemed myself on the Proctor front.
There may have been others but thats all I remember of the top of my head.

I chopped my way through the middle of a Buccaneer, with a hammer and chisel,; does that count?

I’m now able to offer this service to all owners of historic A/C……..just PM me your details and A/C location…….

I’m now able to offer this service to all owners of historic A/C……..just PM me your details and A/C location…….

I cut up a Lockheed JetStar with a Sawzall :p & not just any JetStar, this was the two engined FanStar prototype..

Fox Moth
Moth Minor
Tiger Moth

Yes, it’s XR222 at Duxford.

TSR.2? Wow. Is it in good condition SJMF?

TSR.2
Varsity
Shackleton