There is one Seafire currently on the UK airshow circuit, I can’t remember who owns it but I believe it actually served in wartime though I may be wrong as usual.

Mk. XVII SX336.
Owned by Kennet Aviation, based at North Weald (I believe)
I doubt it’d have any actual wartime provenenace though, as I feel quite sure that the XVII was a end-of-war/post-war development.

Is it just me, or can you see one gable of the burnt out WW1 hangar at far right in the first shot? 😮

Wonderfully evocative pics by the way. Thanks for sharing.

Done, and best of luck! 😉

HAC News page: “We have decided to put up for sale our Hurricane (G-HURI), as a precursor to the arrival of our original Hawker Fury which is due to fly this Summer”

To be honest, I’m too busy salivating over the prospect of the Fury to be all that saddened by the sale of the Hurricane. Think of the formation possibilities! How about a seven-ship 1930’s formation: Fury/Gladiator/Gladiator/Hind/Demon/Nimrod I/Nimrod II?

Earlier posts have hit the nail on the head: we do have quite a few Hurricanes, and I for one am all up for increasing the variety of types to see in the air. That said, the HAC Hurricane is a particularly fine one, and it will be sad to see it go if it does get sold. The sight of a three-ship “vic” of Hurricanes at Legends was pretty special…

“I know there are people on this forum that could ID every aircraft seen, by serial number in a heartbeat too!”
Vulcan XJ824
Lightning XM135
TSR2. XR222
Sunderland ML796
Spitfire VN485
Oxford V3388
Comet G-APDB
Harrier XZ133
Hawk G-AFBS
York G-ANTK

Those are all that I could do without looking. And I can see only 21. 🙁

…a lot of those people attending Waddington were ardent fans of the Vulcan and paid out their hard earned money to attend the show to see her fly, unaware that it was already known within the organisation that it was not to be, Fans that probably had put their hands in their pockets to make it happen, Fans that went home disillusioned at the fact they had spent so much for nought…

Well said. I know I did!!!

I only discovered the existence of the French Breguet Sahara/Provence heavy transport/airliner about a year ago…and got quite a shock when I saw a picture!