This very airframe was once Atlantic Air Transport / Air Atlantique’s G-SIXB.

Tim
AACF Volunteer

The disposal list in the pdf linked from the website you have highlighted appears to be a draft pending clarification of certain ownership uncertainties. The final page of that list concerns some of the airframes and whoever drew up the list seems to have become a little confused. In one section it refers to EP.9 Prospector cockpit and rudder being under museum ownership. In another section on the same page it refers to G-ARDG Persival (Lancashire Aircraft Co Ltd) for which ownership needs to be confirmed.

This is of course one and the same aircraft. The Percival (not Persival) design was manufactured by Lancashire Aircraft after the rights were acquired. G-ARDG c/n 47 was first registered in 1960 and was an interesting example as it flew with a radial power-plant unlike most others of the type.

Tim

DC6 flying around the Covnetry area around 13.00 for around an hour,
looking good in the sunshine.

Won’t have been a based Six as neither are airworthy. Are you sure it wasn’t an Electra as one was to be seen operating on Monday over the Midlands?

Tim

the pencil sketch IS priceless, but is it just me or does it not resemble something more like a Whitley/Stirling crossbreed? (perhaps there was an original photo of a Whitley flying in that position?)

Not sure in what way you think it resembles a Whitley – IMHO it looks like a pretty good representation of a Stirling see:

http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/bww2/stirling/stirling-2.gif

There used to be a B-26 fuselage section in the scrapyard near Warrington back in the 70s – I assume it’s long lost now. Anyone know for sure?

The history of that airframe (41-35253), illustrations after recovery of substantial remnants from the yard and the story of its fate are covered in an in depth article in the November 2010 edition of the very publication that sponsors this Forum. 😉

Only the rear fuselage still survives – now in storage, though once displayed at Earles Colne.

Tim

Great News Matthias

Here’s a shot of MJ772 when she was kept at Strathallan up in Scotland. It was at that time owned by Sir William Roberts who subsequently built up a massive collection of airworthy historic aircraft. Sadly that collection has long since been sold off. MJ772 / G-AVAV was one of his first Spitfires and was at Strathallen at the start of his collecting. My picture was taken on a private visit some years before he opened his site to the public. I recall that Sir William’s secretary told me that if I visited the following day the Spit would be doing an air test – sadly other commitments prevented my return the next day but I did capture it in the hangar. I also have a black & white shot I took of it some years previous outdoors at Elstree when in primer and adorned with the civil registration G-AVAV.

Here’s the picture I took at Strathallan – ignore the 2005 date – that’s when I first published the shot.

Tim