While surfing the net I found this ad on Barnstormer.com
WARBIRDS PACKAGE • AVAILABLE FOR SALE • 2 FAIREY FIREFLY’S (WORTH $250K EACH), 5 F-86 SABRES, 2 T-28 TROJANS, 5 SAAB SAFIRS, 2 T-33 LOCKHEED GRIFFIN SPARES PACKAGE (WORTH $250K) DC3, DC4, BOXCAR SPARES MANY MORE Sell individually or PACKAGE $650K Contact RORY LOADER • Contact Rory Loader – SOUTHERN CONTINENTAL AVIATION located Johannesburg, South Africa • Telephone: +27 11 701 3434 • Fax: +27 11 701 3995
Loads of goodies for sale there;)
Does anyone know which Fireflys these are? Maybe some of the Ethopian ones?
Galdri
By: JDK - 28th October 2003 at 17:07
Sounds like the rest of the cache.
Two of the ex-Etheopian Fireflys are in Canada; one dismantled, on public view, awaiting restoration at the Canadian National Aviation Museum, Rockliffe – and the other at HMCS Shearwater, Halifax, Nova Scotia, under restoration to airworthy condition for one flight only. I’ve seen both with my own eyes, too.
Cheers
By: galdri - 28th October 2003 at 09:45
I read somewhere a while ago, that two of the Ethopian Fireflys had ‘disappeared’ and it was even thought they had been destroyed in tribal fighting.
If these are the ‘lost’ ones, it’s good to know they are safe:)
By: Yak 11 Fan - 27th October 2003 at 23:12
I suspect somebody missed a comma from between 2 T33 Lockheed and the Griffen (Griffon?) spares.
Boxcar, probably Fairchild C119
By: Flood - 27th October 2003 at 23:10
That sounds like most – if not all – that was recovered from Ethiopia…
Lockheed Griffin? Box Car?
Well, I’m sure they know what they are selling!
Flood.
By: Yak 11 Fan - 27th October 2003 at 22:58
Sounds like the 2 Ethopian ones recovered some time ago, one was a Mark 1 the other an extremely rare trainer version. Interestingly the Swedish Firefly’s were advertised earlier in the year as well.
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October 27, 2003 at 10:41 pm