Proctor Restoration Update

Took my camera for service in Colchester today and decided to continue on to Great Oakley on the off chance that someone might be around the Proctor workshop as I hadn’t been back since the day KEX was delivered.
John very kindly made time to show me round all the Proctor projects and both HTE and KEX are progressing well with almost all of the woodwork on KEX finished although there is still a massive amount of work to complete before she will fly again.
Many thanks to John for taking time to show me your excellent work (and for the tea) and thanks to Mike and the rest of the group for spending time and commiting the money to get the Proctors back in the air again.
Sorry no pictures as I had to part with the camera before I got to Great Oakley.

Usually at OSH every year and usually for sale every year! 😀

The shot was taken at Oshkosh last July.

Just to prove that nobody’s infallible…………..

I take your point Mike but it has character!
Where was the picture taken?

Regards
Bill

Thanks for the update Tango Charlie. Great progress is obviously being made, and really exciting news about the Vega Gull. 🙂

……….What beautiful aeroplanes Mr Percival built……….

Just to prove that nobody’s infallible…………..

Tango Charlie

It was good to meet yourself and John at Great Oakley last weekend and to see the wonderful progress being made on KEX and thanks for allowing us to view your various projects. I do hope you keep to the cream and burgundy colours as I think the aircraft will look very nice in that scheme.

It had already been a good day as earlier we had called in at the Vintage Aircraft Club’s Daffodil fly-in at Fenland where three members of our group met up again with our old Cub, which we owned for many years, and its current owner.

So the visit to GO on the way home to see the Proctors was the icing on the cake and it was particularly pleasing to see the last remains (the spats) of the only Proctor I was lucky enough to have half a dozen flights in – always thought the green spats were IWA’s most recognisable feature at that time.

Many thanks for the comprehensive update for the Forum and best of luck for the many tasks that lie ahead as you move towards getting the first of these lovely aircraft airworthy again.

Wicked Willip :diablo:

Good to see things progressing so well. KEX has moved on a long way from that broken fuselage that we battled to get through the door of the workshop a while ago now.

Outstanding work! That first fuselage photo made me smile, the beautiful woodwork, the nice clean perspex….it is so good to see so many of these lovely old ladies getting work done together. Please do keep us posted!

And I must say I have flown ‘KEX on Flight Simulator many times….the closest to the cockpits of our own G-ADPR and ZK-DPP that I can get.

Thanks for the update. What beautiful aeroplanes Mr Percival built.
I’m on the wrong side of the pond nowadays to see them flying but I look forward to the news & pictures.

Good luck & keep us posted
Bill

Thanks for updating us on this wonderful set of projects! I often wonder how the Proctors are getting on, and hope to see them in the skies in the not too distant future, so it’s great to be kept up to speed!

Good luck, TC – fingers crossed for you!

Proctor Discovery

A trip to inspect her is arranged for the 1st May. Its definitely a Proctor, sitting in an out building and substantially complete, covered with years of accumulated dust. I will post pictures of her following the visit, right now for obvious reasons we are keeping the find quiet until we have had a chance to negotiate a price with the owner and arrange transport back to England. If we are successful in our quest, this will a great result, with a third Proctor joining the other two at our Essex workshop. What i am prepared to say is she is not a Mk 3 or V. Pictures to follow after the coming bank holiday weekend! Very exciting news i think you will agree.

Just to add to this topic i have been reliably informed of another barn stored Proctor that has been discovered in Scandinavia. Plans are in hand to visit said barn after Easter to find out the Mark and reg details. Not able to say more now, but watch this space!!!

Said barn yet visited? If so anything to report?

PROCTER MANUAL

Hi TC,

Just came across the following on ABE Books lists –
THE PROCTER I AND III AIRCRAFT (CIVIL) MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR MANUAL if thats of any interest – www.abebooks.co.uk

Cheers Brian.:)

Excellent news on these Proctor restorations.
It is a wonderful type that has been ignored for far too long.
Good to see that the standard of work going on is so high, i’m pretty confident that we will see these in the air in a few years and I can’t wait to see that day.
(That possible barn find in scandinavia also sound exciting, good times for Percival enthusiasts!)

All

Since Mike did a show and tell, I thought I would put up a couple of recent images of my rebuild project down here in the Great Land Down Under. I put the one of the floor reinforcement in because I thought it was interesting. One more bay of floor to be built yet. I have been working on this project for quite a while (years and years) and these is not much about proctor construction in the fuselage, rudder, fin, tailplane, elevators and centre section I am not familiar with. Outer wing panels are still a black hole in my knowledge.

I really need a copies of the drawings for the fuselage for the first formers, ie drawing nos KF366,KF367,KF368,KF369,KF370 so if there is any proctor lovers out there with copies of those drawings, it would greatly help me get my project finished, I am pretty sure there is someone out there with these drawings.

cheers
Ross

Another Proctor Discovered

Just to add to this topic i have been reliably informed of another barn stored Proctor that has been discovered in Scandinavia. Plans are in hand to visit said barn after Easter to find out the Mark and reg details. Not able to say more now, but watch this space!!!

I totally agree with the comment about the standard of work being carried out on these two lovely machines. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing them in the air again in a few years time assuming all goes according to plan and nothing happens to me in the meantime.

We haven’t had a Proctor restored to airworthy condition for years, so this is terrific news. With your two and the one being restored at Coventry by the Air Atlantique Classic Flight, that will swell the numbers! Excellent news!