It looks like a 2 seater could be a Mignet HM294.
If you click on the entry for X5 in the following link it could be the same aeroplane with the wings folded although I am not sure about the engine which looks to be a radial in the forum picture. If you look carefully at the forum picture it does seem to have a canopy (possibly 2 piece) which is open and hinged to the starboard side of the fuselage.
http://www.aracuan.com.ar/matriculados.htm
Although I can’t understand a word on the page there is a bit at the bottom that seems to imply that at least some of the aircraft in this series were marked LV-10_ so maybe LV-105 is LV-X5.

I can’t find the link on the web now but when I was researching Tony Osborne – the original founder of the British Historic Aircraft Museum – I found a thread with lots of information about Tippers Air Transport.
They had advertised the Ansons for sale as Executive conversions and tried using one to ferry cattle to and from Jersey. I think the site said the max load was 3 or 4 cattle with the pilot climbing in through the cockpit window as there was no space to get past the cattle from the usual entry door. The Anson’s career as a cattle freighter was very short as cow by products rotted all the fabric.
It also said that the main owner of Tippers was a farmer and many of the Ansons were stripped of their engines which were stored on his farm.
VL348 / G-AVVO is a Tippers Air Transport survivor. It flew into Southend in silver and dayglo and was impounded along with Tippers crew ferry Proctor G-ANZJ for non payment of parking fees. The Proctor went to BHAM and later to the Historic Aircraft Museum. The Anson was passed direct to the Historic Aircarft Museum and was passed on to Newark when G-AGPG was donated to the Southend museum by Ekco Electronics.

I found a tourist site link dated May 2010 saying that restoration was ongoing and that it was intended to build a small hanger at Carew Cheriton to house the museum aircraft.
http://qualitycottages.blogspot.com/2010/05/carew-cheriton-control-tower.html
There are also pictures of the restored engines on the control tower website so presumerably something is happening but old threads on this forum say that this was a difficult restoration so it could be a long time before she is complete again.

I presume that the inverted approach must have been to give him the best possible view of the runway.
All the best to the pilot and lets hope he does recover OK.

I visited last year for the general aviation show – my first visit in 20 years or more – and thought it was one of the better GA fields that I have visited. The cafe/bar had a pleasant terrace, the food was good and reasonably priced and it all seemed to be thriving with a nice atmosphere. It would be a big loss.

Ric,
The outcome will be described as RF342 and will be entitled to claim that provenance, but it will be far short of that aircrafts condition and authenticity in its heyday or even arrival into preservation in 1967.

Regards

Mark Pilkington

RF342 was far from an original Lincoln when she first came into preservation having acquired a Lancaster nose and lost her turrets long ago.
There was a lot of discussion over restoration options when she was at Southend and the conclusion at that time was that the best option was to restore her as far as possible to represent the time she spent with Napier on icing research. A couple of wing sections were acquired which were going to be attached with a mock up icing rig but the wing sections landed up tied against the wire netting fence and nothing was ever fitted.
Having lost the Lancaster cockpit it must be far more difficult to restore her again in any form.

As far as the Halifax goes I would rather be able to walk through the IWM cockpit and get an idea of the conditions the crew worked in than have that cockpit way off the ground attached to the YAM Halifax.
I also have a lot of respect for those who built Friday the 13th. It may not be a complete original airframe but they have done an excellent job with what was available to them and, as others have said, they have given everyone the closest any of us in the UK is likely to experience to a complete Halifax on it wheels.

Although one thing does strike me about the bus show. When you go in the road in is swarming with bus spotters noting down fleet numbers, photographing every single one of the bl**dy things, gibbering into the dictaphone etc. Anorak is one of many words that leapt to mind when I first saw this rather sad phenomenon.
Then I realised, that must be exactly how Joe Public percieves the likes of us who use this forum I suppose, only subbing buses for aircraft…

One thing I have noticed with the swarms of bus spotters at our local museum open day is that a lot of them seem to have ancient camera gear – Praktikas and Zenits are particularly in vogue . I suppose they don’t need a telephoto lens so very old cameras are probably good enough unless you go the whole hog and upgrade to digital.

More about the aircarft here.
http://www.thundermustang.com/