RAF Hornchurch Display 3 September 1960

Nice to see a shot of G-APNZ. Shouldn’t be too long before it’s back in the air again.

http://www.theturbulent.co.uk/

Anne

[QUOTE=Propstrike;2284420]The Mudry CAP 10 is a two-seat training aerobatic aircraft first built in 1970 and still in production in 2007. The plane was developed from the Piel Super Emeraude and was born as the CP100.

Thanks for that Propstrike
Best wishes
Bill

Roborough, you have a PM.
Chris

The Mudry CAP 10 is a two-seat training aerobatic aircraft first built in 1970 and still in production in 2007. The plane was developed from the Piel Super Emeraude and was born as the CP100.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudry_CAP_10

Roborough, the Taylor Mono G-APRT is alive and well and living in the Newark Museum. It has been very nicely restored but I’m not sure if it’s to airworthy standard. The Garland Bianchi Linnet G-APNS was a British version of the French Piel Emeraude homebuilt. There was also a version called the Fairtravel Linnet.

Thanks for your reply, Ozplane. The Linnet looks a bit like a CAP 10. I presume there is no connection.
Your location intrigued me. My Wife lived in Royston for a few years in the 1960’s and we were married in a small church on the Cambridge Rd. Haven’t been there in 30 years but it was a nice little town in the ’60’s.
Best wishes
Bill

…Perish the thought Mark12….I really do love the way that all these far flung dispersed parts are able to be kept track of. Once again it’s a credit to people like yourself to be able to follow the trail, and weave a thread through this whole amazing journey of parts supply and restoration.

….I just don’t think many other people would bother with this collating of disparate airframe parts UNLESS it involved a Spitfire…..Very cool

.. If not too rude a question, which a/c or wreck provided the Mk XIV tailplane ? Cheers

SM832 provided the Mk XIV tail unit

At the time Doug Arnold, no relation, owned SM832 and was in the process on converting it to Mk VIII Merlin status.

I made a trade with him, supplying a host of parts for the conversion. These included a spare Mk IX tail group ex COGEA, engine bearer, shallow radiators etc.

I received the SM832 tail and a spare Seafire XV wing that had come from Burma via the US on a Seafury deal.

At that time it looked like I was going down the Griffon route and it was worth losing the IX tail to get the Seafire wing.

Time passed, SM832 and Doug Arnold moved on and a new tail unit MK XIV was constructed for SM832.

This would be in the early 1980s and long before the TP367 tail unit loss in India…just in case you were wondering. 🙂

Mark

Hi All .. Thanks Mark 12 for the beautiful set of pics. I went through that fascinating thread on WIX and thought how neat the exchange of tailplanes from RM 694 for use on EN 224 was of great benefit to all, with PeterA providing the Mk XIV unit….

.. If not too rude a question, which a/c or wreck provided the Mk XIV tailplane ? Cheers

G-AOKF Prentice

G-AOKF to Liberia, with delivery to that country as a condition of sale.

…at Monrovia https://cdn1.cdnme.se/cdn/8-2/28197/images/2008/monrovia_22648197.jpg

these pictures make a nice change

Thanks P – very interesting.
I am shocked that it was exported so long ago…
Ed

G-AOKF Prentice

”Wilkinson moved to Jersey, in the Channel Islands, in mid-1965 and used at least one of the Prentice aircraft to commute between the Island and the UK mainland. He sold all three aircr’aft in 1966, G-AOLU to another UK owner and G-AOKF to Liberia, with delivery to that country as a condition of sale. G-AOMF went to CAVU International Ltd., also of Jersey, on 13Sep1966.’

see post 77
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?131582-New-Zealand-Percival-aircraft/page3

Thanks Mark,
Looking as good as it does it is amazing to think it was disposed of as scrap just two years later.
Anyone know what happened to the Prentice?
Ed

Roborough, the Taylor Mono G-APRT is alive and well and living in the Newark Museum. It has been very nicely restored but I’m not sure if it’s to airworthy standard. The Garland Bianchi Linnet G-APNS was a British version of the French Piel Emeraude homebuilt. There was also a version called the Fairtravel Linnet.

Thanks Mark12, at long last I now have confirmation that the dismantled Spitfire I photographed in Bicester’s scrap compound all those years ago really was what rumour had it to be, RM694. Hurray!

…G-APNS looks a bit like a Minicab…

Another photo and a bit more from MK12 here (scroll down a bit )

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=24538

Thanks for sharing those photos ‘Mark’. Do you know the ID of the Spitfire?
IIRC, the prentice was blue and white – does anyone know its fate?
Ed

The Spitfire is Mk XIV RM694. Note the small Mk XVI empennage fitted.

The RAF disposed of it in the scrap compound of RAF Bicester in 1962.

The fuselage is in private ownership and will I am sure be eventually restored to fly.

The wings ended up on NH904/G-FIRE.

The small tail unit is with and will be fitted to Mk XII EN224.

Mark

Thanks for sharing those photos ‘Mark’. Do you know the ID of the Spitfire?
IIRC, the prentice was blue and white – does anyone know its fate?
Ed

Brilliant to see Hornchurch post war. I guess it wasn’t long after this that the airfield was closed and the bulldozers moved in to remove all trace of this historic RAF airfield. Unless you were in the know there is nothing apart from aviation related and aircraft named roads to tell one what went on here before.

Thanks for sharing those photos ‘Mark’. Do you know the ID of the Spitfire?
IIRC, the prentice was blue and white – does anyone know its fate?
Ed