July 4, 2012 at 1:45 pm
With the current Firecracker thread, it got me wondering about the Fieldmaster. Looks like the fuselage of G-NRDC is still out in the open. Shouldn’t this belong in a museum?
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1079655/
By: agpilotafrica - 16th January 2013 at 10:23
Save a Fieldmaster
Hallo, my name is Kobus Voss (Vossie) and I have been a cropspraying pilot for 30 years in South Africa. I have 28000 hours to my credit and have flown almost every make cropsprayer produced in the western world. My company wanted to import one of the firemasters into South Africa. But before we could do it NAC went under. We run a small cropspraying school where we train new and upcoming pilots in the industry. We do like the aircraft as it will make the training much easier. Would you consider selling it or donating it to and company that will realy find the right use for it. We see the industry dying because of a lack of new pilots trained. Most of the youngsters are afraid of flying taildraggers these days. Please let me know if you are maybe willing to help. Kind regards Vossie. NB: We tried the Turks to hear if they where willing with no avail.
By: David Burke - 15th July 2012 at 11:50
The Aerial Application Collection at Boston would be my first call for where it is!
By: Fouga23 - 15th July 2012 at 11:25
Anyone know more?
By: chumpy - 4th July 2012 at 15:14
G-NRDC departed Sandown about a year ago, to a location in West Sussex. (no names, but the new owner well known for his recovery of WW2 aircraft from the former Soviet Union!).
Have since been told that he sold the Fieldmaster on to a farming / agricultral museum. Location unknown but meant to be ‘near’ Duxford.
Any offers???
By: FoxVC10 - 4th July 2012 at 15:13
Saw them with jim Pearce at his establishment a year or so ago
By: Arm Waver - 4th July 2012 at 14:29
I understand she has been moved recently but where escapes me at the moment…