I appreciate what the aeroplane is and I look forward to seeing it fly hopefully in the near future. It is a DH9 after all said and done, not a look-a-like.
I personally don’t get too wound up about serial numbers or registration numbers, at the end of the day a car or motorbike with an age related number and not the original number doesn’t make it any less of the vehicle it is supposed to be than the same vehicle with an original number and it is the same with aeroplanes as far as I’m concerned, nothing airworthy or roadworthy is 100% original, in so far as what it was when first built, because along the way stuff wears out ,corrodes, rots and gets replaced.A brilliant achievement no less and I’m just glad there are people with the wherewithal to do these things
I am amazed how an enquiry about the book’s progress evolved into all this, interesting though it is.