Reasonably old news its just waiting to be moved and yes its DA4….unless of course they change it for the other one that isnt going to be rebuilt…from what ive just heard from a mate its sat behind the BOBMF hanger on a couple of low loaders….

The one that crashed in the US? Or the one that scraped it’s self all along the Conningsby runway?

I’ve mentioned this before, but there was a change in curator soon after the Beau was purchased, and there was a definite impression that ‘war’ planes were not looked upon so favourably, the new curator being a Social Historian and not an aviation specialist. The post has changed again since then I beleive.

So the Shuttleworth aircraft is actually an EoN and not a genuine SG38 then?

Regarding the RAFM and replicas: At least the Vimy, the Gunbus and the Tabloid are replicas…. :confused:

The Director was quoted as saying a few years ago ‘No more replicas’

‘Tis a pity the RAFM now have a ‘no replicas’ policy -or has that changed again?

Dave, yes, that is evidently the infamous Mossie in that photo. You have to assume he did take a photo but sadly he’s decided to feature the less-interesting aircraft stood next to it doh!

Kind of ironic that RR299 was probably the most photographed Mosquito ever, yet her full final service scheme remains elusive! I posted back last year to see if anyone had another photo of her in that scheme.

Yeah, most of ’em were silver with yellow bands and striped undersides but there was evidently at least one aircraft that managed to adopt the later scheme with dayglow fabric stripes – just the thing to make my mouth water! It keeps getting covered in drawings and even the Corgi diecast model but it would be kinda nice to see an actual photograph!

You mean like this?

Extracted and cropped from a corner of a shot in Gerry Manning’s book ‘Military Aircraft of the 1960s’ – recommended purchase if that era interests you! Photo taken at Shawbury in 1963 by Tony Griffiths (main subject is TA719 – you just wonder if he took another shot ‘next step down the line’)

The photo immediately below this in the book shows a hanger scene at 3 CAACU in 1961, and in the background is again the rear end of RR299 – in the old scheme.

Dave Fleming