YL-ABG, according to “British Racing and Record Breaking Aircraft” took part in the Ramsgate races on 21 Aug 1937 and the Lympne International Rally on 28/29 Sept 1937 as well as the Folkstone Aero Trophy Race on 5 Aug 1939 referred to above. It therefore seems likely to me that A-B got the registration wrong. 

This picture is captioned as being at “Ramsgate 1937”. Note the racing no. 3.

Rebranding is a modern disease. Kidlington Airfield near Oxford is now “London Oxford Airport”. How stupid is that!

My local airfield, the former H.M.S. Daedalus  at Lee-On-The-Solent is now “Solent Airport, Daedalus”. Not long before the Daedalus part of the name is quietly dropped I suspect. To us locals, it will always be Lee airfield or just Daedalus.

There were a lot of one-off aircraft in the pioneer age and the very poor quality of the pictures doesn’t help of course. It may be useful if the country in which the pictures were taken is known.

Not at all likely to have been a Hurricane in the late 50’s. The late 50’s is also a bit late for a Barricuda. A few lasted until the mid 50’s and then were all withdrawn. 

G-A BSI

A light weigh seat like that wouldn’t have lasted five minutes on any kind of agricultural or construction machinery.

Exercise Chameleon, a nation wide special forces training exercise, is on and will end on 16/9.