The static CAF Canberra T4 was transported to Newquay from CVT and is now with the new organisation established there in the wake of the CAF retrenchment to CVT. WK163 remained at CVT throughout.

Good news that the crew survived the incident. Sadly this is the third Dart powered type to be destroyed in a crash in the last few weeks. An F-27 (6W-STF) and a Gulfstream 1 (9Q-CNP) have also recently come to grief in Africa, both on 2 Nov.

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To put the timescales into context, that quote is from an input to that site dated 2013.

Is this the one which was recovered from a tree in a scrapyard several years ago?

That was G-ACBH – a black and white photograph I took of it was published in an early edition of Wrecks & Relics. At that time the fuselage had yet to be moved up from the scrapyard into a tree! Indeed to get the photo I had to climb a tree to look down on the stored fuselage and use flash on the camera!

Several years later I photographed the forward fuselage of G-ADFV (the example being discussed here) when it was for a short while on show inside a building at East Kirkby.

Tim

You have a rapier sharp wit Mike.

Most of the Ansons ended up being parted out or scrapped

Not so Mike. Most survive as follows:

G-AGWE ended up in the USA. I photographed the frame of this at Tico many years ago (though I believe it has since moved on).

G-AHIC I think was parted out and, IIRC, some components may have been used in repairs to G-BFIR at that time (but my memory may be faulty on that).

G-AHKX remains airworthy and is lodged at Old Warden

G-APHV is complete and continues its static restoration at East Fortune (but it used to fly when with Strathallan)

G-AWRS is complete and on static display at NEAM / NELSAM

G-AYWA all parts survived; major components formed part of the Anson mix / package now in Belgium.

To complete the picture, G-BFIR (later re-registered as G-VROE) was never part of Willie Roberts’ collection but was later stored for a while at Strathallan and survives with us a Coventry in airworthy condition.

A surprisingly good survival rate, even if only one flew again after leaving Strathallan.

Tim

I see they used some of my air-to-airs in the catalogue, including one of the Proctor – a different view to the one used in the Mail. It is a superb aircraft, I do hope it finds a good home after all the care lavished on it throughout its restoration.

Tim