Thanks for the identification guys, I would never have guessed Jet when I first saw it. The details were passed to me because it was thought to be Typhoon…I knew it wasn’t but thought it may have been slightly later piston engined and possible late mark Spitfire. I have no history behind it but I am trying to find out more details.

Being a non-ejection seat model would this have made it a very early Vampire? I would have thought ejections seats were almost standard fit at that time…

The radiator as far as I know is….sort of a shame as although it belongs to MN235 not many knew the one on her is not real!!! I have seen far worse rebuilt….

AHO5007…could well be Typhoon!!

Thanks for the encouragement…

Richard did (don’t know if he still does) have a Tempest MKV project that was registered. It had a cockpit section, fuselage (Typhoon that was diverted to the Tempest production line) and tail. I tried to get in contact with him as I have a large number of Tempest drawings which may have been useful and perhaps he had some unwanted parts. I had his mobile but unfortunately I was unable to get through…the tail of the Tempest is the same as later Typhoons. I have a couple of elevators so anything else would be very interesting.

I am as surprised as you Anthony….the bidding on the tail wheel unit is ridiculous at the moment. I am not aware of anyone else that would need one at present, the Tempest projects all have one as far as I know and there are no Typhoon projects that are going as far as me. I picked up 2 pairs of main undercarriage legs (NOS) for far less than the tail wheel at the moment. I am completely self financed and have to do this on the side at the moment…there have been other tail wheel units around so you have to pick and choose the parts you turn you attention to. At the current price it makes no sense (unfortunately) when you look at the other parts that I am looking into….

I would be interested to know who would need one…maybe they want to see it installed in a Typhoon 😉

When you have been researching and cataloguing for 15 years you get to find out there are alot of items left that you don’t realise 🙂 sabre isn’t as much of a concern compared to wings and measurements….

The plan is for everything to airworthy standard and see how far I get 🙂

Oh…just recently picked up 2 pairs of undercarriage…They were NOS (have surface rust after 70 years!). The size of these things I would not like to have to start again.

Thanks for the post….only taken 15 years lol

now you are talking…when will the t50 be ready? 😉

I just need the front spar to enable the jig to be started…a few leads which I hope will come to fruition this year but if anyone happens to have one lying around 😉

That’s interesting cees…They told me that they had had other interest in the fuselage and had higher offers but preferred my submission!!!