The Biggin Hill Invader thread and all the hype that has come with it has got me thinking.
Is there anything currently airworthy or being restored to fly that we do not have a static example sitting in a museum somewhere?
I can not think of any example of a Focke-Wulf Fw189 elsewhere in the world but other than that I am unsure of anything else.
Also how many aircraft have been restored for the purpose of flying that would probably not exist now?.
I know I am opening a can of worms here and the answers may not be as clear as I would hope, But what the heck.
By: mike currill - 26th February 2009 at 07:26
Not sur about now but to the best of my knowledge the Shuttleworth Collection’s LVG is the only one remaining and they used to fly that
By: Proctor VH-AHY - 26th February 2009 at 01:35
Hello All
if you are doing a restoration from a pile of junk to a fully restored aeroplane, then the costs are very high. If you are just going to some thing that looks OK then the costs are less, but it is less of an aeroplane.
If you are going the whole way to having an aircraft that is fully restored, I think that sort of money is generally only available for aircraft that will fly.
Bit like when they are originally built, the usually build them to fly, not for static exhibit.
cheers
By: VoyTech - 25th February 2009 at 13:02
VP441
EN224 one day, hopefully.
By: Propstrike - 24th February 2009 at 21:53
Mew Gull
By: David Burke - 24th February 2009 at 21:37
Sounds decidedly like Mr Cox’s ex Irish Avro Cadet
By: Lindy's Lad - 24th February 2009 at 21:11
Nope, its absolutely not any of those!
FB
Something to do with the name Cox?
By: Fournier Boy - 24th February 2009 at 18:07
Not sure which one you are referring to, but are you sure that’s not an Avro 626? There’s an Irish one being restored and one in the RNZAF Museum at Wigram and I believe one in Portugal. These are export versions of the Tutor.
Nope, its absolutely not any of those!
FB
By: Kenneth - 24th February 2009 at 16:09
I know the KZ.VIII isn’t active (but will be again hopefully) and not sure if they are all sole survivors.
The other KZ-VIII (OY-DRR) is airworthy in Denmark. As are the last KZ-X (OY-AOL) and the sole surviving Miles Mercury. The airworthy Gloster Gauntlet in Finland also fits into this thread…
By: AMB - 24th February 2009 at 09:30
Nope I know of another Tutor in this country – although not on public display – and hopefully flyable one day when the owner has the time to get it going!
FB
Not sure which one you are referring to, but are you sure that’s not an Avro 626? There’s an Irish one being restored and one in the RNZAF Museum at Wigram and I believe one in Portugal. These are export versions of the Tutor.
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th February 2009 at 07:47
Well, to my mind the most significant aircraft of them all in this category will be the Yak-1 (at HAC), when completed. There is a mostly authentic Yak-1b in a museum at Saratov, but no extant example of this earlier version in any form anywhere else in the world.
What is a proper valuation beyond priceless, I wonder?… That is what we will have here.
By: DragonflyDH90 - 24th February 2009 at 06:27
de Havilland DH90 Dragonfly
By: scion - 24th February 2009 at 02:37
British Klemm Eagle VH-UTI {retractable U/C}
Comper Swift VH-ACG {gipsy engine}
all flying and Short S16 Scion static
By: Steve T - 24th February 2009 at 00:44
Not the Curtiss Owl…there is one under restoration to fly in the States, yes, but there’s another on static show at NMUSAF, and the Marine Corps museum had one (derelict) in store also albeit many years back.
The unique flyer that comes to my mind quickest is the Alvis-engined Gloster Gauntlet that was restored and flown in Finland in the 1980s…And isn’t the recently completed Hawker Nimrod a unique survivor?
S.
By: Fournier Boy - 23rd February 2009 at 20:31
Hawker Nimrods I and II
Avro Tutor
Granger Archeopterix
Blackburn Monoplane
D.H. 51
Hawker Tomtit
Jet Provost T.1
Martin Mars
Curtiss Owl
E.E. Wrenetc…etc….
Nope I know of another Tutor in this country – although not on public display – and hopefully flyable one day when the owner has the time to get it going!
FB
By: RPSmith - 23rd February 2009 at 18:52
Southern Martlet
Robinson Redwing
Spartan Arrow
Civilian Coupe
ANEC II
Arrow Active
Percival Mew Gull
Miles Hawk Speed Six
Blackburn B.2
Sea Hurricane
(KZ.VIII)
Arrow Active
Parnall Elf
I know the KZ.VIII isn’t active (but will be again hopefully) and not sure if they are all sole survivors.
Roger Smith
By: pagen01 - 23rd February 2009 at 18:15
Apart from the Jet Provost T.1 at Cosford!
By: 25deg south - 23rd February 2009 at 18:13
Hawker Nimrods I and II
Avro Tutor
Granger Archeopterix
Blackburn Monoplane
D.H. 51
Hawker Tomtit
Jet Provost T.1
Martin Mars
Curtiss Owl
E.E. Wren
etc…etc….
By: duxfordhawk - 23rd February 2009 at 18:01
Is it? 😉
Jon
Ok for the moment.
By: pagen01 - 23rd February 2009 at 17:48
The sole Northrop N9 ‘flying wing’ was made airworthy, I guess that fits the bill.
By: Jon H - 23rd February 2009 at 17:41
I had totally forgot some of there aircraft,de Havilland DH.88 Comet is for sure unique.
Is it? 😉
Jon
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