The Merchantman nose is G-APES, I think the nose of EJ went to Brooklands.

The story of ES is a rather sad. It was kept airworthy ‘unofficially’, by one or two engineers at the time in the hope that it would go in to preservation. There was a strong rumour that it would go to Cosford and indeed I knew of a plan by someone who wanted to buy it and swap it for one of the Andovers at Cosford.
In the end it lost a few parts to G-APEP (the last flyer), and then it was only a matter of time.
The Aeropark had originally been allocated G-APEM, (the one in the DHL livery) but at the time didn’t have anywhere to put it. From what I remember she was pretty much 100% complete when scrapped. I think the Aeropark salvaged most of the cockpit instruments which enabled them to refit the cockpit of ES.

I suppose if ES had gone to Cosford, it would be reduced to a nose section now anyway. 🙁

Where are they going to be auctioned? Not that I have the money to buy one. 🙁

Canberra PR 9 Auction

Hope he packs the sun tan lotion this time!

When I started as an apprentice I bought a set of these. I think they were £42 for the set (which was over a weeks wages in those days!). Nice to see that they are still available (and stll as expensive!).

Popped into the museum myself yesterday, so here are a few extra pictures.

I love the smell of dope in a morning. 🙂

Apart from the fact that what you have printed is probably libellous or slanderous Brendan is OK and a far more decent person than a number that have been known to post on these forii.

Agreed. I thought the remarks were unfair and unnecessary.

I seem to remember a couple of airshow parties where he went down rather well, particularly with the laaadies. 😎