See:
http://www.regiamarina.net/arsenals/planes_it/idroplanes/idro_us.htm#CMASA%20RS.14

Wonderful news that the old girl has been taken into care rather than ending up being scrapped. Forty years ago she looked like this:
http://www.airlinefan.com/airline-photos/1483127/Decca-Navigator-Company-Ltd./Percival/Prince-Mk.1/G-ALWH/

and just prior to export she had a modified scheme but you can still see the match up to the Decca text that you’ve revealed again on the airframe:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Decca-Navigator-Co/Percival-P-50-Prince/1426736&tbl=photo_info&photo_nr=1&sok=WHERE__(reg_%3D_%27G-ALWH%27)_&sort=_order_by_photo_id_DESC_&prev_id=&next_id=1256931

Tim

[QUOTE=John Cooper;1366235]I thought you were all getting bored, again sorry about the quality, 50 years old slide. The Dak is from the RAF Christmas Airways, I’m not sure of the Clipper [snagged] DC4/6 maybe, I’m sure someone will say within 10 minutes!:p

The nose is of Air Charter Douglas DC-4 G-AOXK which carried the name Golden Fleece. She was eventually sold to Williamson Diamond Mines and ended her days, with another owner, broken up in Zaire.

This is a great thread – that photo of the Connie at Elmdon …..I remember those seats in the public enclosure so well – cream tube frames and green tin seats! It is wonderful to see photos with context. The background architecture, the fashions of spectators, the historic refuelling vehicles, the marshallers in action – all add so much to the atmosphere. I’ll have to dig out some of my b&w negs!

Keep them coming!

Tim

Hello all,

Does anyone have any information on the current wherebouts of Antonov An2T HA-MKF (White, blue and red scheme)? There are a lot of photos of it at Popham but I have heard it’s based at Hinton-in-the-Hedges.

Cheers, Huw:)

Another Hungarian registerede example (HA-ANG) is based at Hinton but there was no sign of ‘MKF when I visited there a couple of weeks back, not personally aware it was ever based there.

I understood that the Souch example, although well advanced at one stage and displayed statically at one of the Woburn rallies (beautiful it looked too) , was never completed and subsequently dismantled.

David,

I agree PN323 probably was the most complete of any remaining “above water” at that time. Even ‘323 wasn’t actually “complete” at the stage when (the majority of) it was scrapped (the nose survives). The standard empenage had previously been removed and the twin fin arrangement replaced by a single fin / rudder for use in static tests. Maybe a PAF example or a Halton was the last truly complete one given the chop?

Tim

Hi Jon,

Prior to AA the airframe as you know was owned by John C who originally brought it to CVT. I have just sent an email to a colleague who attends CVT a little more frequently than I can, to get in touch with John to see if he can remember the details you need. I’ve passed on your email address so hopefully that will bear fruit.

Tim

AACF volunteer