Very many thanks everyone, super stuff.
Fancy clarifying serial numbers after 50 years!

Much obliged
Alan

It won’t help you in your quest, but I noted 3 Fa-330s in a Nissen hut on Farnborough airfield on 13 Sept 1959. They were accompanied by Aeronca G-ADYS, Eon Primary G-ALMN (BGA589), Slingsby Cadet VM691, the Broburn Wanderlust, and T5595, T5635, LZ558 and BGA589.

I’d be happy for a hint as to where any of these ended up, and what they all were!

brgds
Alan

The Swedish aircraft in post 762 is indeed a FFVS J 22 fighter. The photo has been published in various Swedish mags, with the location given as ‘Denmark, 1945’, not RAF Sylt.

The J 22 was flown by the Commander-in-Chief of Flygvapnet, Gen Bengt Nordenskiöld. He had been invited to this particular event by the RAF which occured in June or July 1945. The smoke seen in the background emanates from former Luftwaffe Bv 138 flying boats used for target practice.

Regards,

Jan

Thanks Jan,

I’m happy to revise the location, however my photo came from a usually impeccable source and I was going by his note on the back. I’ll give him a buzz bye the bye and see if he remembers:).

cheers
Alan

Jenna,

I’ll try a contact, whose wife’s dad was CFI if I recall correctly.
Will let you know.
cheers
Alan

Courtesy of Ray Deacon…..A Meteor snowblower at Kemble in the 1960’s!

According to a list I have dated 3 Oct 1966 it could have been T7 WF826
rgds
Alan

Here’s one that is little remembered:

N253MZ was a Rockwell Sabreliner owned by an Italian Contessa connected at the time, 1970 with Italy’s largest publishing house. On paper it was owned by an American, Paul Heim, who lived conveniently in Turin. For the Hannover Air Show that year, Paul loaned his aircraft to Rockwell, and agreed that it could be used by Bob Hoover to do his usual stunts with it, similar to those he did with the Shrike Commander. Bob was demo-ing the aircraft to a couple of potential buyers when the starboard gear failed to extend fully. Bob decided to bellyland on the grass but aborted when the gear wouldn’t retract so he put her down on two and held off until minimum speed was reached. No one was hurt and the damage was not severe. Bob’s expertise had saved the day! The colour photo is a typical Christmas card Paul would send, and later ones would show a Beech twin, King Air I believe, N253ZM. I still correspond with Paul’s co-pilot, who lives in Northants.

14 years later, May 1984, Hannover would see the tragic accident that took the lives of Steve Piercey, founder of Propliner, and photo-editor of Flight, and Cliff Barnett, Flight’s GA journalist, during an aerial photo session with a Beech 1900. A young Brazilian was also on board. The Beech landed safely.

The Italian Wikipedia provides the following:

Diversi esemplari di G.46 sono tutt’ora conservati, tra questi:

Museo Storico dell’Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Anguillara (RM): un esemplare di G.46-4B è stato esposto fino ai primi anni’90, ed è attualmente, al 2007, immagazzinato.
Museo dell’Aviazione, Rimini: un esemplare di G.46-3A, che prestò servizio alla Scuola di Guerra Aerea di Firenze negli anni cinquanta. Matricola militare MM 53312, immatricolazione civile I-LEOR.
Facoltà di Ingegneria Aerospaziale dell’Università di Forlì: un relitto di G.46-4B
Modena, Monumento ai Caduti in Viale Italia: G.46-4B
Austria: l’esemplare austriaco matricola 3A-BB ha subito un completo restauro completato nel 2005
Parma Il bel G46 I-AEKT (serie VI NC 216) di Pino Valenti, con il quale vola regolarmente ed effettua manifestazioni acrobatiche in tutta Italia
Rieti Il G46 MM 52792 di Luigi Aldini, attualmente in fase di restauro per tornare di nuovo in volo.
Provincia di Vicenza : G46 I-AEKA Esemplare pari al nuovo di proprietà del Sig. Luciano Sorlini.

Hope this helps
brgds
Alan

…and here’s another I saw over the period of two years at Forli, in I believe 1988 and 1990.

There seems to be an ongoing restoration here, too: http://www.aldini.it/g46/

brgds
Alan