The new Boomer is more new build around an original frame using traditional style of manufacture.

Probably no less original than many Spitfires and Hurricanes now flying though

[QUOTE=Bograt;1428258]We told you before…..

Amelia Earhart’s Electra, if we can get it over from the Pacific in time :p

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or at least the significant ex Sidney Cotton Electra that stood in for it in the new film.

if we have a French theme this year – MS406/presumably Hawk 75 any chance of the replica Caudron 460 racer that’s just flow at Le Bourget…….

Robin Hood airport certainly has a long enough runway, unless it has been changed since I was there last (1973).

My first ever airshow – must have been in the early 60’s

always remember the multiple Vulcan scramble!

Right – couldn’t find a concise list so I’ve prepared one – using available internet resources only

Comment away!

Not bad when I remember that when I first got into historic aviation A46-30 was the sole survivor!

Boomerang Survivors

Type Serial Civil Reg Owner Status
CA-12 A46-3 South Australia Aviation Museum status unknown
CA-12 A46-5 Museum at Dandenong status unknown
CA-12 A46-10 Forward fuselage in store – Matt Denning
CA-12 A46-16 or 20 ? current rebuild
CA-12 A46-25 Moorabbin Air Museum static display fuselage only -unrestored
CA-12 A46-30 RAAF Museum static display
CA-12 A46-47 Darwin Aviation Museum + remains of A46-57 status unknown
CA-12 A46-54 VH-MHB Greg Batts current rebuild
CA-12 A46-55 Ron Lee status unknown
CA-12 A46-63 VH-XBL Boomerang Aviation Pty Ltd (Jim Whalley/James Edwards) first flight 26/06/09
CA-12 A46-67 Chris Jamesson rebuild to a/w
CA-12 A46-73 Boomerang Interceptor Return to flight group/HARS -rebuild to a/w
was with Arthur Griffiths who also had cockpit of A46-158 – has this moved on as well?
CA-12 A46-77 Greg Batts status unknown
CA-12 A46-90 Ian Baker rebuild to a/w
CA-12 A46-92 Rod Provan status unknown
CA-12 A46-101 D Baxter status unknown
CA-13 A46-117 (VH-ZOC)Jim Whalley/James Edwards rebuild to a/w
CA-13 A46-122 VH-MHR Temora Museum a/w
CA-13 A46-124 Darwin Aviation Museum status unknown
CA-13 A46-129 Chris Jamesson Forward fuselage only status unknown.
CA-13 A46-142 Don Brown Plus frame from A46-166 status unknown
CA-13 A46-144 Lionel Long Rebuild to static
CA-13 A46-146 Kermit Weeks Stored (with A46-165)
CA-13 A46-147 Nick Knight Rebuild to static
CA-13 A46-173 At Gove Airport status unknown
CA-13 A46-174 Kermit Weeks Stored
CA-19 A46-206 (VH-BOM)MAAF ex Zuccoldi was a/w now static
CA-19 A46-249 Dick Hourigan Rebuild to static plus parts of A46-87

No problem ! Interesting that these Seafires survived so late when the FAAM must have only been a breath away of needing one.

as indeed is the fact that they passed on PP972. How times have changed!

And was there any news from the Patons about Jane yet?

On the strength of previous posts it seems that the renowned wit of this board is sometimes unwelcome. Nevertheless here goes. I apologise if offence is taken. It is not intended

will they be fitting pattern parts?

perhaps they’ll have to knit together parts from a number of different sources

It will be a purler of an aircraft when it’s restored to fly

Will it have needle props – like the Chinese replicas

I think you’ll find that Patons are a well known knitting firm. It is the Panton brothers who own JJ.

On a more serious note, I think it really is for the Pantons and their supporters to decide. I see that one of the aims of the EK Airshow later in the year is to provide funds for the continued restoration of JJ. The decision to source a number of new engines I would have thought also gives a clue to the ultimate intention.

The other fact is that if restored to flight, JJ could stay in the EK circuit for most of the time with only the odd excursion to other venues. If she is airworthy there is nothing to require her to be absent from EK for much of the summer. There would be nothing to stop the taxi runs and the economic pull to EK of seeing JJ taxi and then display would probably be greater than the the interest generated by the taxi runs alone.

We all recognise EK is a special place – I see an airworthy JJ as the icing on the cake.

Just out of interest ( and I realise that Duxford do not restore exhibits to taxiing condition ) what sort of state is their Lanc in – Mechanically complete, good engines, systems plumbed etc,etc ?

it was good enough for Doug Arnold to buy it to restore to flying condition. The purchase by the IWM only came later. IIRC FlyPast trumpeted it on the cover as “Another Lancaster found to fly” or words to that effect when it was first purchased by DA

In 1965 when I was stationed at RAF Hospital Ely we had a MK XVI on a pole outside the main entrance, I think it was TB382, it carried a post war silver scheme.

Does anyone know what happened to it or better still does anyone have a picture of it!

I have tried googling it but with no luck.

Strange – I just tried googling TB382 (if that indeed was it’s actual identity as it came with no data plate) and came up with a number of hits.

Mark 12 or Fluffy is your man for the full monty on this one but due to its poor state it seems that it was “consumed” as spares after use by the RAF Exhibition Flight, assisting with the rebuild of TE311 and presumably the BBMF Spitfire fleet generally.

IITC TB382 was the late Raymond Baxter’s personal aircraft at one time.