http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-562801/British-pilot-arrested-trying-land-George-Bushs-Texas-ranch.html

I’m sure that ‘owner’s wishes’ would be the main reason it has hardly been flown. The Seafire arrived a few days before Oshkosh, remained parked on the grass all week, and flew out again a few days later after everyone had gone home. Still, it was nice to get to see it, if not in the air.

John Beattie has been seen lately flying Tim Manna’s Skyraider and Seafire. I believe he retired from the RNHF some years ago.

At least this one looks a little less like an X-47B!

It is an old film from 4 years ago, I understand that the aeroplane concerned has been parked up in a locked hangar since appearing static at Oshkosh that year (2010)

It is odd to see A10s and F16s put out to pasture too.

There’s a lot of fairly recent stuff there. Rows of S-3s, C-130s, F-18s, even B-1s. Not to mention the construction jigs for the B-2. There were still several B-57 Canberras there when I visited about 5 years ago, presumably retained as spares support for the NASA fleet.

Someone seems to have “lost” a 727……!!!

There’s also a Storch, Ju-52 and Sea Venom missing from a major UK National collection. 🙁

There’s the rather peculiar story of P-51 N5448V (44-74977), supposedly stolen from a hangar in Tonopah, Nevada while owned by Mike Coutches. Some time later it turned up, parked and abandoned, at Merced, California.

Tango Charlie’s Proctor III was used as an ATA air-taxi

‘Thin but robust’, presumably. 🙂