Slightly surprised that the OFMC Spitfire MH434 isn’t on the list or have I missed something?

Thanks for the link to the video Daz, I hadn’t seen that before. One query though for any Hunter pilots out there. Would you normally roll the Hunter with the flaps down? Perhaps that was to help maintan station wiith the camers ship but I would have thought it was a bit unusual.

Thanks for the response, HP, and I do see the difficulty. If the Shoreham Gemini is up for sale at £35K with a current C of A, it is hard to see that the Mercury is worth twice as much. I guess he is trying to recoup some of the large wad of Scandanavian notes he must have ploughed in to it over the years.

Slightly off topic but there is a Miles Gemini for sale at the moment, along with the Miles Mercury in Scandanavia. The Gemini in particular seems to prove the point that a restored airworthy airframe is much cheaper than starting a restoration as it’s up for sale at about £35K. Wouldn’t those two aircraft complement HPs Miles types nicely. Any philanthropists about?

Didn’t Mr Edgeley design a self-build glider after he’d recovered from the Optica affair? I believe it was built from a material used in racing cars called Mallite (?), a sort of composite sandwich structure. I think I remember seeing the prototype at a PFA Rally at Cranfield some years ago but whether it ever “took off” (sorry) as a design I don’t know.

One thing to bear in mind is that Andrewsfield is a grass strip and I believe has been closed recently due to the heavy rain. Stapleford on the other hand has a hard “starter extension” to the main runway and so isn’t affected. I’d agree with Moggy, go and try both but don’t part with any money until you are sure.
Incidentally don’t let either of them put you off the NPPL. I had to relinquish my CAA PPL for the NPPL and it hasn’t affected the type of flying I do at all. Basically it’s day VFR in a Glos-Airtourer.Sorted!