From the HAC webpage..
Although produced in huge numbers and despite a long career after the war, surprisingly few still exist. There is one in the Musee de L’Air in Paris, and one in the Saxonwold museum in South Africa. There is also a civilianised version in Australia; however, there were none in the British National Collection. Rumours of two or three secreted away in India abounded for years and their discovery and recovery to the UK by Aero Vintage took many years of negotiation and organisation. Aero Vintage Ltd director, Guy Black, was determined to ensure that one at least was preserved in the UK in a national museum, and the other restored to fly.
E-8894, now registered G-CDLI which has the most degraded woodwork, will be restored to fly with an original Puma engine. The other DH9 recovered, D-5649, is being restored to non-flying status with a high standard of conservation and original content, for the Imperial War and will be displayed, unsuspended in the new Airspace hanger, by the time this new building is opened to the public for the first time.E-8894 was one of a batch of 200 DH-9 aircraft ordered on the 23rd March 1918 under contract no. 351/418/C.296 (BR.394) from the Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Ltd., of Hendon. As far as is known, it probably saw no military action before being placed in storage and sent to India under the Imperial Gift Scheme.
An excellent Puma engine has been found, and once restored to fly, this genuine 1st World War aircraft will not only be the only 1st World War bomber flying, but also the only Imperial Gift aircraft flying anywhere in the world. Completion of the flying DH9 is anticipated in 2017. Both aircraft are being restored in the Retrotec workshops in East Sussex. ref….http://www.historicaircraftcollection.ltd.uk/dh9_rest.htm
[ATTACH=CONFIG]254881[/ATTACH] Very informative volunteer guides with many stories to share.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]254882[/ATTACH] Unusual exhibits , this is the crew room re created showing where the RAF Lossiemouth SAR stayed on stand by, in the next room is the entire operations and eng room. Makes a change to see fairly recent locations preserved with everything as it was especially as the Sea King is just outside.
David the museum is not on the Kinloss base but instead in a former school which served Southside married quarters.And the collection does have much of local interest with more to come.
No details on the Dragonfly so far. Another rarity in the Morayvia building, TSR 2 engine[ATTACH=CONFIG]254877[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]254878[/ATTACH] Herald ,Sea King and the superbly restored AN2.
Morayvia has just announced that a former lossiemouth based Dragonfly heli will be joining the collection.
Airwork used the Sea Hornets on a RN contract at St Davids. Some of these parts were recovered to London Colney. The rest were scrapped and these bits rotted away. I found some small bits in the marsh on my visit in 1975.
It will be interesting to see what RIAT make of the RAF 100 for 2018, surely someone somewhere can put on a good line up for a few days?
Bristol Monoplane Shuttleworth evening show 15 July https://www.flickr.com/photos/danelms/35943681635/
Geoff, the days of the RAF having spare MT have long gone, many transport moves are made by civvy trucks and contract drivers and when you have to pay up for extra moves it gets very tight.
Perhaps the lesson gradually being revealed regarding WW2 is just how narrow the margin was in many parts of the war between an allied victory or defeat. I grew up when much of the popular image was skewed by the residue of wartime propaganda and many files still being with held. Veterans were not often interviewed in depth and many were never given a chance to speak on the record( I do understand many did not want to discuss upsetting aspects). As a more realistic view unfolds I appreciate even more the courage that many showed and also the immense demands being asked for. That many were killed or injured has always been accepted but I also now realise that the mental damages were a high price also paid.
ADV Tornados Mount Alice Falklands …..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_X6KNIlxWM
Probably the one mentioned in this listing….http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/news/nostalgia-warplanes-shrapnel-fell-around-11628241
Great views of the new arrivals thanks, the nearest I got was the droning sound as they passed overhead my home near Aviemore obscured by a solid cloud layer .
Graham, the circular marking was likely gas detection panel made of paper..see this thread…https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/gas-warning-paper-on-spitfires-mk-i.37541/
The answer ref ju 52 seems to be in this thread…http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?19835-BEA-JU-52s