As has been said I think that the currrent custodians/owners of the aircraft should declare their position in major press and aviation journals and with the Indian authorities.

Then anyone with an interest etc can either speak up or shut the hell up !!!.

I think everyone else should take a step back and hopefully the individuals concerned will keep not only this forum but the aviation world up to speed on their very interesting project.

Lets hope it all resolves itself very quickly and before long we are blessed with an original axis aircraft on the airshow scene.!!!!

I wish it was going to Aeroventure:D.

You can always ask and I shall pass your request on there are now currently two of the three proposed touring airframes on the road.

I suspect the value in the rear canopy section, Firebex, is in the frame rather than the perspex.

Maybe but they aint rocket science to manufacture are they Andy ???

Rear canopy just gone for £500 plus silly money for second hand.

You can buy brand main new canopies circa £600 and the rear for less and that is NEW not dubious heritage and scratched to hell and back .

Some bits of interest but others as has been commented upon perhaps a question mark should be placed in the appropriate place in this gentlemans adverts ?. Perhaps a lesson in carefull wording when flogging off the surplus ?.

Too obvious to pass up, but Spitfire?!
Are the wheels definately Spitfire?

If they aint I will want a refund !!!!!. The man says they are without a doubt so if they aint he will be paying plus carriage BOTH WAYS !!!!!

Would imagine that only DAS would have the means to look after a Budgie?! Getting hold of one is probably the easy bit, having the space to keep it and the manpower to look after it are the real problems!

Plenty of schemes to restore it into!!

Hey I woprked on that one !!!! In fact I worked on most of them on the line at Woodford in between Nimrods and things.

What happened to GARAY in the end ??? If I remember rightly she was the one that was half 748 and half 780 (Andover)kneeling undercart and dropping ramp demonstrator or was that the P reg one ?.
Its been a long time.

I do remember a certain very large wooden mock up of a proposed airliner taking shape at the beginning of one of the lines. HS146 they had in mind for it but they cancelled it saying it would never happen.Funny how a few years later the production aircraft are being broken up at Kemble and Exeter.
What was that other one we had oh yes HS800 and HS801 one of them being Nimrod not sure if the other wasnt the flying bumble bee (AEW).shame about the latter plenty of space for anything they wanted to chuck on board we just could not generate enough electrical power and then the politicians and Boeing got involved. (that again was a Labour government if I am not mistaken.Lets screw the aircraft industry !!!)

Just to throw another Sea Hawk hat into the ring I have been involed for many year sin fact from the start with the Malta aviation museum .
As you are probably aware we have one of Nev Martins ex Sea Hawks over at Taqali.
But what you may not know is in one o our gold mine scrap yards over there we also have the reamains of another Sea Hawk very badly hacked about.
We think she came from the Dump at Hal Far in the 1960’s as the yard has been a time capsule since basicaly late 1960’s very early 1970.The fuselage whats left of it is in two parts including the cockpit,she has been axed just behind the pilots seat position and has been well guttted out.
BUT from memory there are /where a pair of wings a bit battered standing up in a corner.
I was due to be going back over this month but sadly a meeting with a surgeon and a scalple is going to delay that somewhat.
Does anyone know the likely ID of this aircraft and woudl you like me to ask the guys next time they are going in there(not often these days)to have a look at the wings and see if they are Sea Hawk,