Pleased to report that Percival Sea Prince WP321 (G-BRFC) has finally escaped from the weeds at the former Bournemouth Aviation Museum site and is now parked on the hardstanding next to airworthy Pembroke WV740 (G-BNPH). This is another major step in her restoration to flying condition she will soon be moving into the new DeHavilland Aviation hangar on the north side of the airfield for an in debth overhaul with the goal of her taking to the skies again in 2009
By: Jon H - 29th July 2008 at 14:25
Jon, She looks in great shape despite the condtion of the nosewheels!
Nosewheels are off our Prince G-AMLZ not the Sea Prince at Bournemouth 😉
By: Peter - 29th July 2008 at 13:52
Jon, She looks in great shape despite the condtion of the nosewheels!
By: Jon H - 29th July 2008 at 10:01
Having got one Sea Prince out of the weeds would be nice to do it for a second but does not appear to be much hope of that at present. “Restoration” at Lasham seems to mean slow destruction by the elements. :mad::confused::mad:
Having pulled another of the breed (well a Prince 🙂 ) out of the weeds such delights as this are no doubt lurking underneath the poor thing……….. I suggest you open the hi res version to see just how shot the nose wheels are.
We are not even going to attempt to salvage these as the only thing holding them together now is the concrete filled tyres! So two complete nose wheels to add the the shopping list :rolleyes: Just wish we had a Prince manual or two to help make the task that bit easier lol
Jon
By: hunterxf382 - 28th July 2008 at 21:09
Very nice indeed…. what a lovely sight to see them together…
By: PembrokeC1 - 28th July 2008 at 06:25
Excellent pictures as usual Nick all we need to do now is get her in the air – just a little job
By: flyboy.nick - 27th July 2008 at 17:45
at last a clean sea prince.
After a busy day of cleaning the Sea Prince WP321 she looks great again.
looking good with her sister ship the pembroke WV740.
By: PembrokeC1 - 23rd July 2008 at 06:30
Both the Sea Prince and Pembroke will be staying with DeHavillands at the airport
By: Manston Airport - 22nd July 2008 at 23:38
DeHavillands will be moving to Hangar 603 north of the BASCO hangar at Bournemouth within the next few weeks.
Oh right I know the place so once she is completed her overhaul will she stay at DeHavillands or as the owner got a place of his own at the airport now? :confused:
James
By: Carpetbagger - 22nd July 2008 at 18:27
Lasham Pembroke C1
Here’s a couple of pics from a few weeks ago.
I got chatting to a guy who was trying to remove the pins from the Sea Hawk wings so they could extend, then he had to open the Meteor cockpit by drilling out the screws after some low life had tried to force it. But the Pembroke was the one he was restoring. Not enough time/money/people etc to do it all.
It did look sorry for itself, someone had apparently tried to force open the door at some point.:(
Just don’t mention the Drover, must be home to a hundred birds and a ton of twigs & bird poo:(
John
By: PembrokeC1 - 22nd July 2008 at 16:58
Having got one Sea Prince out of the weeds would be nice to do it for a second but does not appear to be much hope of that at present. “Restoration” at Lasham seems to mean slow destruction by the elements. :mad::confused::mad:
By: BSG-75 - 21st July 2008 at 12:39
I know the owner of the Sea Prince and Pembroke would love to add the C1 from Lasham to the collection at Bournemouth but all attempts to convince the present owners to sell are met with a blanket refusal as they are in the process of rstoring the aircraft themselves !!! The future for this aircraft and the rest of the Lasham collection does therefore not look too bright.
Lasham does stir up some “full and frank exchange of views” on here, I posted some pictures a while back as I’m only a 15 min drive from there, but I don’t think there is much restoration ongoing – they are not being scrapped etc, but seem more stored on axle deep grass with all that brings.
By: bri - 21st July 2008 at 10:41
Don’t know much about the history of this type, so what did the navy use them for? And, tongue in cheek, did they ever land one on a carrier?
Bri 😀
By: PembrokeC1 - 21st July 2008 at 06:33
I know the owner of the Sea Prince and Pembroke would love to add the C1 from Lasham to the collection at Bournemouth but all attempts to convince the present owners to sell are met with a blanket refusal as they are in the process of rstoring the aircraft themselves !!! The future for this aircraft and the rest of the Lasham collection does therefore not look too bright.
By: XH668 - 20th July 2008 at 14:08
Now if only something this good could happen for the C.1 at Lasham.
If something good can happern to all of those beauties at lasham, i doubt they have long left
cant wait to see this beauty fly 🙂
By: pagen01 - 20th July 2008 at 13:53
Well done on this project on getting a Sea Prince flying again, that will bring back happy memories of them beating the circuit at Mawgan and Culdrose.
Now if only something this good could happen for the C.1 at Lasham.
By: stringbag - 20th July 2008 at 13:44
Please post them 🙂
I remember the sight of the ‘dead’ Sea Prince at Yeovilton very well from the 80s!
By: PembrokeC1 - 20th July 2008 at 06:29
Nice to see the “historic” shots of G-BRFC/N7SY especially the flying ones from the past. Anyone have anymore we could add to our archives ??
By: REF - 19th July 2008 at 17:04
Here is a picture I took of her in 2003.
http://www.richardflagg.fotopic.net/p43428693.html
I can’t wait to see her flying. Well Done to all involved.
By: PembrokeC1 - 19th July 2008 at 16:59
DeHavillands will be moving to Hangar 603 north of the BASCO hangar at Bournemouth within the next few weeks.
By: Manston Airport - 19th July 2008 at 13:49
This is great news cant wait to see her flying well done to the owner 😎 Just wondering were is the new DeHavilland Aviation hangar thats on the north side of the airfield ? :confused:
James
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