Old 'aircraft for sale' ads

Just a side note, Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) Ltd became Auster Aircraft Ltd on March 8, 1946.

I am pretty sure that the photo in Civil Aircraft Markings showed G-ASSD with invasion stripes around the fuselage and the aircraft in the advert certainly has them on the wings so it looks like G-ASSD is the most likely candidate.

It is MK297/G-ASSD.

Both ‘SSD and ‘VDJ were painted in the 2nd TAF Invasion Livery for the film ‘The Longest Day’.

‘SSD had a distinctive vertical light bar on the engine cowling camouflage and that can just about be seen in the newsprint image.

Mark

Photo:- Peter Clifton

According to my British Civil Aircraft Register G-AVDJ wasn’t registered until 29/12/66.
I must admit that for some reason I thought G-ASJV was a MKV (oops!- brain fade again) but I do remember it was featured in Aircraft Illustrated soon after arrival from Belgium and in those days it was cream with red trim.
G-ASOZ was ex Irish Air Corps 158 and the register shows it a a T MK9 so it appears to have been a two seater. BCAR states that it wasn’t converted and was dismantled at Elstree in 1964 but was rebuilt and reregistered as
G-BMSB in 1978.
G-AVAV and G-AWGB were definitely ex Irish Air Corps two seaters.
I am pretty sure that the photo in Civil Aircraft Markings showed G-ASSD with invasion stripes around the fuselage and the aircraft in the advert certainly has them on the wings so it looks like G-ASSD is the most likely candidate.

Fascinating – in my lifetime (born 1965) the asking price of a Chipmunk (then £2,350, now £36,000) has risen by a factor of 15. The same comparison with the Spitfire yields a factor of around 300!

SSD rang a bell because it was pictured in the first copy I ever got of Civil Aircraft Markings in 1967. As a fairly young spotter a Spitfire was a real scarcity in those days and it became an ambition (which I never achieved) to see SSD. I am not sure but I think it likely it was the only MKIX on the civil register in the mid/late 60’s.

Other Mk IX’s on the register at that time were:-

MH415/G-AVDJ
MH434/G-ASJV
MJ772/G-AVAV
MJ627/G-ASOZ
TE308/G-AWGB

Mark

Not quite “for sale”, but an ad from “The Aeroplane”, Aug 6, 1943

Rob

We have been given copies of the orginal adverts for Prince G-AMLZ dating from the late 50’s iirc. All nice bits of history to have 🙂

Jon

I am not sure but I think it likely it was the only MKIX on the civil register in the mid/late 60’s.

Tim Davies MH434 would also be a player, wouldn’t it?

T J

SSD rang a bell because it was pictured in the first copy I ever got of Civil Aircraft Markings in 1967. As a fairly young spotter a Spitfire was a real scarcity in those days and it became an ambition (which I never acheived) to see SSD. I am not sure but I think it likely it was the only MKIX on the civil register in the mid/late 60’s.

I should have added that this one was from the 26 March 1965 edition. Your suggestion of MK297/G-ASSD makes sense seeing as she apparently changed hands around that time:
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/spitregistry/spitfire-mk297.html

It would’ve been fun to go shopping then (May 1964):

At a guess the Spitfire was most likely G-ASSD which eventually landed up in the USA in 1969.