So what preserved aircraft have you flown in?

It’s great that so many people have had the chance to experience these aircraft. Where there is a will there is a way. I’ve been really lucky, my first warbird ride was in 1989 in the right seat of Glen Lamont’s B-25 and I haven’t looked back.

jim

Flown PIC:
Mustang C “Betty Jane”
B-17 “909”
B-24 “Witchcraft”
B-25 “Tondelayo”
T-6 (7) different airframes, including a Harvard
Bird Dog
Stearman
PT-19
T-28
Beech 18
L-4
YPT-14 waco UPF-7

As Passenger:
Fieseler Storch
Mustang TF “Crazy Horse” & “Lady Jo” actually logged time but not PIC
F4U-5
L-39
B-17 Aluminum Overcast
Mustangs Ridge Runner, American Beauty, Lady B, Petie 2nd, Flying Dutchman, Straw Boss
B-25 Guardian of Freedom
Ford Trimotor in Military markings…if that counts :p

Tiger Moth ZS-BGN
Hornet Moth SAAF 2007
Chipmunk T Mk 10 WG354
DHC Beaver
Aero L-39 ZU-KIM
Aermacchi AM3C – various
Alouette II – various
Alouette III – various
Super Frelon – SAAF 309
Puma – various
Atlas C4M Kudu – various
Boeing 707-328c
C-47 Dakota – SAAF 6859
Douglas DC-4 – various
Edgar Percival EP.9 – “XM797”
Fairchild Argus – KK476
Fieseler Storch – VT+TD
Harvard – various
Mustang – “325”
Patchen TSC-2 Explorer – SAAF 2000
Percival Provost – RRAF 137
Piaggio P166S Albatross – SAAF 881
Sikorsky S-55 – “A5”

Chipmunk ZK-UAS
Harvard ZK-WAR

THE AIRCRAFT IS NOW IN IN A MUSEUM IN IRELAND BRIAN C D

Think you maybe confusing G-ACIT with EI-ABI. CIT is the Science Museum store at Wroughton Wiltshire: non airworthy. ABI is airworthy with Aer Lingus at Dublin.

Planemike

Numerous DC 3 aircraft of AA
Twinn pioneer
Percival Provost P1 XF 914
Saro Skeeter G-APOI and G-BDNS
Tiger Moth
Proctor
Prentice
SE5A (replica)
B25 Mitchell
Jet Provost
Nimrod
Victor XL 231, XL 232, 191
AN 2
Boeing Steerman
Beech expeditor
L4 grasshopper
Miles Messenger
Miles Gemini
DH Vampire T 11
Just a few I know not classed as war birds or WW2 but there is some interesting stuff in there.
and many many more I cant remember them all worked on hundreds of aircraft large and small as well as warbirds from both wars original and replicas.

Mike E

www.whirlwindfighterproject.org

I HAVE ENJOYED MANY FLIGHTS IN VINTAGE AIRCRAFT BUT THE ONLY ONE THAT I HAVE FLOWN IN THAT IS NOW IN A MUSEUM IS THE D.H. DRAGON G-ACIT THIS WAS FROM FROM SQUIRES GATE BLACKPOOL IN 1955 .
THE AIRCRAFT IS NOW IN IN A MUSEUM IN IRELAND
BRIAN C D

Did a lot of flying in Rapide G-AGSH in 1973 including 2 parachute jumps from it. It is now a “preserved” aircraft I understand.

As a pilot I flew numerous Chipmunks, Bulldogs, Gazelles and Sea Kings – remarkable that the latter is still a first line aircraft – some must be near to 40 yrs old?:eek:

Along the way had rides in now retired Sea Prince, Wasp, Jetstream, Wessex, Hunter, Canberra, Nimrod, Harrier, Andover, Argosy, VC10 (still going?), Britannia and Belfast.

Does this qualify??

= Tim

Looks like the rear cover star of the recently produced Warbirds over Britain 2012 Charity Calendar. Available from [email]warbirdsoverbritain@yahoo.co.uk[/email]

Wessex 2 and 5
No idea of the serials or times as we used them like taxies.

Chinook Hc1 ( find another one and one in Hendon, IWM?, including BN.. yawn…)

Puma Should have been retired to a museum years ago, nowt like flying at 7000 feet in a puma in the door facing seats with no doors ( they used to fall off)….

VC10 the odd tanker variant and the C1 again the fleet and no idea which, but most of them if not all..

An2

Fouga Magistair

UH-1 German Airforce, do they still have them?
Ch-53 German Airforce do they still have them?

RAF Whirlwind Hc whatever

Most of the Cessna range
Most of the Piper range
Most of the Mooney range
Auster
Pembroke
Devon

Jaguar T2

possibly others but cannot remember as they were just a means from A to B, may come back to me……

Several Chipmunks (during my ATC days!) which have made it into preservation. I also flew on G-ARVM as a child but that doesn’t really count now … 🙁

Taking the term ‘preserved aircraft’ as being those that are now museum aircraft I can claim 2 and possibly 3 that are in the RAF Museum’s collection, and one other that isn’t.

Sedburgh VX275, as captain.
Hercules XV202, Trials Officer
Nimrod XV235 (is it still going to be dismantled and taken to Cosford?) Trials Officer

Then there was Dh 104 G-ARDE which now resides in a museum in the Gulf (Bahrain?)

The Harvard at Boscombe doesn’t count as itis still a working aircraft :rolleyes:

Does this qualify??

= Tim

Here goes..
Early/ mid fifties, Dads idea of child minding was “take the lad along too..” so many hours on weekends were spent in anything Air Charter Ltd that dad happened to be flying.. often Freighters, but mostly DC-4’s g-anyb and g-aofw, including a solid 3 months out of templehof in’56 in g-anyb.

Also an RAF Hastings flight around jan 1970, very low and very slow over a Vulcan that had crashed the day before at RAF ?? ( can’t recall)

thats easy to answer … I had only three (!) flights in my life (!) with old aircraft… multi engine Do28 Skyservant ..long ago, as I defended the country … and the two flights with a single engine in 2011: in January an old Piper Archer 😀 Elmar Meier at the sticks (I was allowed to take the controls for about 30 minutes) and in summer a beautiful flight over the Black Forrest with the magnificant P-51D “Lucky Lady VII”, Christoph Noethiger at the controls

it was really a perfect day ! A Day I will never forget in my life

Your welcome.

I also have a Russavia green ticket for the same aircraft issued by Swb, the flight being on the 13.4.86 that cost £9… and a yellow ticket issued by PM that cost £8 for a DC-3 for the 6.7.85 , take off 1.15 & landed 1.26. But sadly i didnt note down the reg.
Have a funny feeling though it was a Air Atlantique DC-3!

Yes we did use Air Atlantique DC-3’s

Dave

Your welcome.

I also have a Russavia green ticket for the same aircraft issued by Swb, the flight being on the 13.4.86 that cost £9… and a yellow ticket issued by PM that cost £8 for a DC-3 for the 6.7.85 , take off 1.15 & landed 1.26. But sadly i didnt note down the reg.
Have a funny feeling though it was a Air Atlantique DC-3!

Happy Days!

My first ever flight, in Russavia’s Rapide G-AGTM at Duxford.

I was part of the wonderful volunteer team that operated GTM, as was Dave (G-ASEA) also on this forum. I may have briefed and boarded you for that flight!

Great to see our old leaflets and stickers – can’t believe how long ago it is now. Glorious times, lots of happy customers and quite a lot of flying as we filled in empty seats, and flew on crew training and positioning flights.

Thanks for posting!

A number of trips in Hiller 12C G-ASTP, WS55/3 Whirlwind G-AODA and Wessex 60 G-AVNE,now all in the Helicopter Museum at Weston.

And one trip in Lancaster Mk7 G-ASXX/NX611 and you know where that is.

RB

Best I can manage is a couple of trips in Air Atlantique Dakotas but I am not sure where they are now.
Jackaroo G-AOIR on a Moth Charity Day at Old Warden and I was fortunate enough to win a flight in the Shuttleworth Tiger Moth a good few years ago now.

Only this gentlemans carriage

Having flown a few interesting draggers over the years my most memorable flights in a dragger were about 15 years ago give or take. I had been visiting Exeter when i was asked to be supernumary on a night out to Coventry for a show.
The a/c was the Howard 500, some dragger. We had a pleasant flight up, a few toots on the night out in Rugby then a flyby on Sunday and off home. Cheers Duncan. My position on take off/landing was in the furthest aft seat available, basically balast!! Nothing new there then. I understand it is now at Cov. I wonder what is happening with it? It was a very powerful beast. Happy landings.