DGH – I think they sold it because they were having a rethink of the collection and the B-25 didn’t strictly fit in the scheme of things. I guess they knew it wasn’t a fighter when they bought it! As for the Staggerwing -it’s the ideal aircraft if you want to go somewhere and not run up expensive hours on a Merlin engine . It also has the advantage of being pretty quick .

Thats kind of what I was saying…… 🙂

Beautiful Glenn, great photo, fantastic plane – nice. 🙂

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 Thats just made my Christmas! Fantastic news – keep up the good work. I for one really appreciate all the hard work you’re doing in the classic jet field. 😎 😎 😎 😎 😎 😀

GAOSU is now sadly a wrecked airframe after a very heavy force landing almost a year ago near Elgin at the glider strip.The pilot survived and was badly injured but is now out of hospital. The wreck is stored at Kinloss ,I would guess that the pilot was wearing a helmet because the cockpit coaming has a huge dent in it.
I was also an air cadet and loved the chippie flights.

This aircraft has just been sold. The new owner might wish to update us with his plans next time he pop’s in here. 🙂

Congratulations Air Atlantique and a big thumbs up for saving another piece of our aviation history. 🙂

Thanks for the info on Marham Les, unfortunatly fate got in the way and I had to miss todays departure but ta.

Were is she at the moment? If she’s at Marham I might pop up tommorow to see her go, if she’s at Shawbury then I guess Coventry would be easier but I aint doing that trip on me day of!

Thanks for all the updates guys. 🙂

At my last check I think there was about 130 Doves / Devons still in existence around the world out of the 544 made. As Bruce says there are many that could be restored to airworthy condition but I dont expect many will.It is a shame as I think they are an ideal aircraft for a group of like minded people to buy and use as a cool way of getting to airshows etc. They dont seem to go for that much money in the grand scheme of things ( sure I saw one advertised for £30,000 not long ago ) although I’m sure they must be pretty expensive to maintain.

David I believe the NTPS aircraft N11XW (04401) hasn’t flown in a couple of years but again I would love to be proved wrong, so little information drifts through about these aircraft it is hard to keep an eye on the one’s in a different country.