They must be doing some ad hoc charters too as EI-DBR did a flight
from Nice to Farnborough yesterday before going back to Manston.
When I was at Manston a few weeks ago pax seemed thin on the ground. And this was when the whole fleet was on the deck at the same time.
If anybody is interested this is 10:00 mon-fri.
Good luck to them anyway.

A quick guess is a Bowers Flybaby homebuilt, designed in the early 60’s and quite a few of them built so far, but I could be completely wrong!

‘British Civil Aircraft since 1919’ gives the following
Fokker DR built by John Bitz GmbH, Munich G-ATIY,G-ATJM registered 9/65, re registered EI-APW,APY 6/67. G-ATJM still exists at North Weald I think?

Slingsby type 58 Rumpler CIV
Made from Tiger Moth parts with 130hp Gipsy Major
G-AXAL ff 14/3/69,G-AXAM ff 25/3/69 to USA as N1519E and N1916E 1970

Pfalz D.III
built by PPS Booker G-ATIF PtoF 1/12/65
built by Voiv Bellamy G-ATIJ ff 8/65
became EI-ARC and ARC 6/67

Se5A built by Miles at Shoreham with steel tube fuselarges and 200hp DH Gipsy Queen
G-ATGV ptof 1/5/65 to EI-ARA 6/67 w/o 15/9/70
G-ATGW ptof 11/8/65 EI-ARB 6/67 w/o in collision with filiming Aoulette II G-AWEE 18/8/70

Currie Wot built by Slingsby
G-AVOT-AVOY, registered 8/67 to EI-ARH-ARM carried serials A5435,A4850,A7001,A5202,A6262 A5435,ARHand ARM sold to USA 1971

Others used were
F-BGMR,BGTR,BGTX Morane-Saulnier MS.230
G-AIRI de Havilland DH-82A
F-BMKQ de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
G-AMTK de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
EI-AGP de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
F-AQFB Caudron C277 Luciole
G-ANDM de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
F-BMKG de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth
G-ATIR Stampe SV.4C
F-BBIT Stampe SV.4C
F-BMKQ Stampe SV.4C
G-ATIO Caudron C276
G-ATIP Caudron C276
EI-ARE Stampe SV.4C
EI-ARF Caudron C277 Luciole
EI-APT Fokker D.VII/65
EI-APU Fokker D.VII/65
EI-APV Fokker D.VII/65
No idea what happened to most of them. I think most of the replicas
were sold in the US. I guess the Stampe’s and Tigers were just on loan

The Athena was only built in small numbers. There was the T1 prototype with Mamba and the T1A protytype with Dart. But 17 T2’s (VW890 prototype)were built with merlin 35’s and operated as gunnery trainers, doubt if they lasted long though. Serial numbers were VR566-VR580, none survive.

The Prentice was also supplied to Argentina, and I think one is preserved there? Looking at my copy of ‘aircraft of the world 1953’ it says the prentice was licence built in India, something I didn’t know? The Prentice was supposed to be like flying a brick and be too stable to be a trainer. Thats why the upturned wingtips were fitted to disturb the airflow. Add to that it was very thirsty and slow so only a handfull made it into the civil market out on the 200 odd Freddie Laker brought.