Frst of all, condolences on the passing of HRH Prince Phillip.
Weather you are a royalist or not, one must admire the dedication to duty he and the Queen have maintained over the years.
Since he, and two sons (and a grandson or two) have been pilots, have many of the airframes flown by them been preserved?
I know of a Queens Flight Wessex and the cockpit of Charles’ Basset being preserved, is there anything else?
I know from a Vickers book that three specially equipped Valettas were built for a total your of Africa…is anything along those lines still around?
I don’t expect any (or ve th few, BOAC/BA airliners with royal history to be out there…like the Canadian built Argonaut (Merlin powered Douglas) that Phillip and the Queen were using when her father died.
So, what is out there?
By: Mothminor - 19th April 2021 at 19:57
Youtube video titled Duke of Edinburgh Flying Lessons shows Prince Phillip flying Harvard KF729. Bending the original question slightly but Harvard G-BJST carried this scheme between 2000 and 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HxrwqcNsYw
By: relight9 - 19th April 2021 at 19:44
Not a complete aircraft but a unique Mk204 Viper engine from Prince Charles’ JP’s is still going strong in our JP XS186
By: J Boyle - 19th April 2021 at 15:57
A friend just sent me a link to a Telegraph article about a Durine Turbulent that Philip flew in 1959…G-APNZ which is currently under restoration.
It was apparently the only time a senior royal flew a single seat aircraft. Full marks to him for flying it!
By: FLY.BUY - 17th April 2021 at 18:33
I think the Comet 2 front fuselage at Old Sarum (when a complete airframe) flew the Royal Couple
By: Mothminor - 17th April 2021 at 09:38
Chipmunk WP903 in which Prince Charles learned to fly. Still airworthy. Photo taken at Shuttleworth in 2017.
By: TerryP - 17th April 2021 at 09:35
Chipmunk WP861 is still going strong in New Zealand:
https://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/29198/prince-philips-airplane-flying…
By: Ant.H - 17th April 2021 at 09:34
Dh83 Fox Moth C-FYPM is airworthy in Canada, it was originally built for the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII of abdication fame) as G-ACAJ in 1932.
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