Hi Phil yes it was a K4 they also had Capstans ? I think they were called, I do recall that someone flew one straight into a hanger on my course and did a bit of damage, I know I had a cable break on my first solo which was interesting and on my second I met an airsea rescue Seaking coming straight towards me on my downwind leg and I spent so much time looking at him and hoping he had seen me that by the time I realised where I was I was very low which ended up with me doing some quick turns on to a very short final coming in quite fast and low and only popping the spoilers out as I came over the fence, everyone thought it was very good and I had done it on purpose, I didn’t enlighten them that was all apart from my instructor, who was a Seaking pilot,he had seen what had happened and just said “that was an interesting circuit for a second solo, frightens me to death now just thinking about it, if there had been a double decker bus going along the road I would have gone straight through his top deck

Hi Phil, I think it must have come to Plymouth from Perranporth, funny I now live in Truro, of course the club at Plymouth had Tigers as did the Naval flight there until the Chipmunks arrived in about 1966? the navy used the club tigers when required but I don’t think the club used the navy tigers

Gordon