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December 7, 2015 at 11:34 am in reply to: Major aviation collection to be saved #893591

Jon H
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Latest snippet of news –

“THE NORTH YORKSHIRE AVIATION COLLECTION ——Some Clarity

Many thanks to everyone who has replied to my message below. At this stage I think I ought to clarify my intentions to you.

1. I am simply a custodian of the collection in the owners absence.
2. My sole intention is to ‘rescue’ the collection.
3. I am not buying, and do not own any of the collection.
4. At this stage I am not in a position to sell any of the North Yorkshire collection.
5. Once removed from North Yorkshire the collection is going into secure storage, both at my Museum and at an undisclosed location.
6. The collection will be reunited with its owner in the future and will be displayed along with my collection in a brand new bespoke Museum of Aviation Memorabilia.
7. Once we know exactly what we have and what we will use, a large supply of surplus/duplicate items will then be offered to the market and other Museums.
8. The ‘rescue’ programme is expected to take at least another eight months due to the many obstacles described below.”

Jon

December 4, 2015 at 3:30 pm in reply to: Manchester exhibits #895706

Jon H
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Did it ever see service?

It was never impressed (no RAF serial etc), and stayed with Allied Airways throughout the war.

Jon

November 22, 2015 at 12:26 pm in reply to: Mid-Atlantic Museum P-61B Black Widow – 16.11.15 #905091

Jon H
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I am no P61 expert, and as such happy to be corrected, but reading their website it would suggest a dorsal turret is accurate for this airframe –

“The next variant, the P-61B, made further improvements to the A model, including a provision for drop tanks, as seen below. The first two hundred of the 450 built did not have a top turret.”

So as the 232nd built it falls in the “with” turret batch.

All that aside though, a very impressive restoration.

Jon

October 31, 2015 at 9:44 am in reply to: Old Photos – 3 #922262

Jon H
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If it helps, you can find a list of aircraft attending the 1957 event here –

http://www.farnboroughspotters.co.uk/1957.html

Jon

October 23, 2015 at 11:40 pm in reply to: Father Of Comedian Mike Harding. #847179

Jon H
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A quick search of the internet and –

http://www.aircrewremembered.com/raf1944/scott.html

Jon

October 17, 2015 at 12:08 pm in reply to: Duxford Battle #851432

Jon H
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Would that be the yellow Battle that is really Firefly SE-BRG/DT989/G-CYGD? 🙂

Jon

October 8, 2015 at 9:45 pm in reply to: You will enjoy these #857824

Jon H
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I am sure most people’s questions can be answered here –

http://hawkerhind.com/

Jon

September 25, 2015 at 1:01 pm in reply to: Blackburn B.2 G-ADFV – anyone know where it is now? #868459

Jon H
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That was G-ACBH – a black and white photograph I took of it was published in an early edition of Wrecks & Relics. At that time the fuselage had yet to be moved up from the scrapyard into a tree! Indeed to get the photo I had to climb a tree to look down on the stored fuselage and use flash on the camera!

Several years later I photographed the forward fuselage of G-ADFV (the example being discussed here) when it was for a short while on show inside a building at East Kirkby.

Tim

Having checked the bookshelf, your picture of G-ACBH was in W&R5 🙂

Also, is there any chance TAC could have a copy of the picture you took of G-ADFV at East Kirkby for their archive?

Jon

September 23, 2015 at 8:12 pm in reply to: Blackburn B.2 G-ADFV – anyone know where it is now? #870162

Jon H
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As I get an honourable mention in that report (Jon H = Jon Howard) then I can safely say things have moved on since then. 🙂

When further enquiries were made the Shuttleworth “lead” turned out to be only partially true as that is where some parts of the U/C ended up (having done so in good faith and certainly no impropriety on their part), but the whereabouts of everything else is still to be resolved.

Jon

September 23, 2015 at 6:14 pm in reply to: Blackburn B.2 G-ADFV – anyone know where it is now? #870279

Jon H
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In short – no 🙂

That is G-ACBH/G-ADFO which is in the care of the guys at South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum, Doncaster.

G-ADFV was acquired by The Aeroplane Collection from Caterham ATC in the mid/late 70’s. It stayed with the collection for a number of years before it was sold to be rebuilt to fly. Sadly one of the leading lights in that project passed away before things got going and so it was placed into store.

Jon

August 22, 2015 at 11:25 pm in reply to: Somewhere in southern England? #905401

Jon H
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Or how about period pictures of Hanworth Air Park-

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw036243?search=Hanworth%20park&ref=33&quicktabs_image=0#quicktabs-image

You can make out the “stable” buildings and fuel pumps right hand edge roughly in the middle.

Jon

July 12, 2015 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Astrodome and windscreen help #862856

Jon H
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What a weird coincidence.

Been doing a spot of tidying/shifting this afternoon and – snap!

Single seat Venom/Vampire windscreen, and a Vickers Varsity Astrodome.

Jon

June 29, 2015 at 11:10 pm in reply to: Canopy Identification #875119

Jon H
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Single seat Vampire/Venom

Any story behind it?

Jon

June 19, 2015 at 11:56 am in reply to: Victor XL231 And Nimrod XV250 Work Diary MkII #883513

Jon H
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How is the other HP product at Elvington, the Herald, doing these days?

Jon

June 16, 2015 at 4:06 pm in reply to: Cockpit-Fest 2015 – 13th & 14th June 2015 #886332

Jon H
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Aviation events once more at Hooton Park – here you go 🙂

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