[QUOTE=italian harvard]Yes, I can confirm 😉
btw even the one in Vigna di Valle comes from Lebanon, but was repainted with wartime colors (even if wrong) and is being refurbished with all the original equipment. I wonder what happened to the third S.79, might well still be sittin there? :

The 3rd SM79 is in Italy – believed stored at Universtity of Pisa according to the superb Preserved Axis aircraft website – here’s a link to a picture of it. http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/Italy/images/SM79_MM21150.jpg

I took the photograph (mentioned in a post above) of the Pixie 111 G-EBJG that was published in Wrecks & Relics 16th edition. I took that shot in Nov 1997. The picture (the original slide of which I can’t lay my hands on just now) depicted the fuselage and tailplane and you could see the various cowlings placed on the ground in front of it. The aircraft was then (and still is) in their Robbin hangar. Although now it is relegated out of view behind the more glamourous but far less rare Sea Harrier.

I attach for your enjoyment here a scan of another slide of G-EBJG which I took earlier, back in 1988. It was then stored in a brick building which had no windows and was adjacent to the Museum’s old location on the site. A while later I recall that the Pixie’s rudder appeared on display for a while upstairs in their new hangar – but it’s no longer there and I wonder if it can be located now.

The store in which I took the attached photo contained a number of interesting machines, including the Messenger (now moved on). It also held components of the Wheeler Slymph G-ABOI (built (I think in Iraq) by Alan Wheeler, the one time doyen of the Shuttleworth collection. It never flew). I say components – well what I was shown comprised no more than remnants such as wheels plus (literally) a tea chest of small components / bits of wood. I recall seeing a photo in Control Column of ‘BOI taken in woods at Old Warden. It was then sitting on its wheels and comprised a complete but fabric-less fuselage minus engine. I fear the Slymph is beyond resurrection – but the Pixie deserves better. It is a fascinating example of one of the Lympne trials aircraft and interesting in having flown in both monoplane and biplane configuration. The MAPS subsequent MAM must be congratulated on keeping the remains under cover all these years. As, however, it doesn’t seem to fit with MAM’s primary themes and it needs very specialist woodworking and associated skills to properly restore, maybe it could be released or swapped to enable someone with relevant will and resources to bring it back to at least static glory?

The picture attached shows the inverted fuselage with tailplane and elevators stacked against it. The picture was taken using flash as it was pitch black in there! Enjoy.

GASML asked months ago if anyone had reference photos of the Tiger / Be2C “replica” which Charles Boddington et al had created at Sywell in 1968 and has this year been recovered to the UK after years in the US. At long last I’ve found the slide I took of the machine on 8 March 1968. Hope this angle is of some help if the restoration is still ongoing?

The Anson did come from Wetaskiwin but they had / have more than those quoted in post in this thread. I photographed 6 stored externally during a visit there this year. (That’s apart from the (approx) 25 I photographed at another place in Alberta this year).

Thanks very much for taking and sharing these shots. What a beauty – I saw her during restoration about 5 years back and was so impressed by the professionalism, enthusiasm and dedication of the restoration team – their efforts and those of the recovery team have really paid off.

Dave,

If you view the attached and look at former maufacturers (at the bottom of the list) I think the entry for Airship Industries will supply the answer. Their airships were often to be seen at Cardington – I do have some slides of a couple of them together there I can’t recall the date. So far as I know they did not make any of the Goodyear blimps. One of their craft was displayed at Farnborough on at least one occasion. I thought the company failed not long after one of their test pilots died in a non-airship related accident but my memory may be playing tricks.
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/airship/manufacturers.htm

I visited Dick’s restoration project and photographed the material about 5 years ago. I took slides (which are in deep store at present). He is a very knowledgable and highly committed preservationist who has done a considerable amount to secure and restore the compoenents he has. Amongst the material are indeed the items referred to by Setter donated by the Australians. Dick used to have annual open days and took a lot of trouble to allow interested parties to see the material. As it is all stored in a “domestic” environment, the components are not easy to photograph as they are in various locations on site and somewhat cramped in.

Let’s show a little respect for this guy and his efforts. I don’t think that one contributor to this thread taking the michael out of his name is very clever – it certainly won’t help anyone now wishing to gain access and cooperation to see the collection. I also doubt that Dick needs suggestions about what to do with the material he has amassed and is working upon, when he has struggled to achieve what the major UK museums have failed so far to do re this type.