Absolutely beautiful 🙂 Thanks for posting them.

Some confusion about the identity of this Tiger but known to have belonged to the Indian Government in the ’60’s.

Isn’t ZS-PBE one of the ex-Indian Tigers which were in store in Swanton Morley a decade or two back and they all went out to South Africa.

Thanks – so that would be the same batch of Tigers which are shown as having been stored at Shipdham (same area as Swanton) and are mentioned in this thread –

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?91366-Indian-Tiger-Moths-at-Shipdham

And confirmed DH Association of South Africa –

c/n “OU/01/66″ ex RIAF “HU-187” (serial incorrect) Regd VT-DPC 4.63 to Govt of India. Crashed on landing Patna 27.10.72; presumed repaired. Shipped to Nigel Wright, t/a Arrow Air Services, Shipdham, UK .79. Presumed sold .95 to Jim Pearce, Findon, Sussex (but not so reported) and then 10.99 on to a S African consortium comprising Ewing, Rehrl & Andrew Torr and were shipped to Rand for rebuild by Strecker Bros; arr 6/7.1.00. Regd ZS-PBE 14.7.03 to JB Van der Merwe, Vaalwater. Regd A2-OLD 3.5.04 to Okavango Helicopters, Maun, Botswana. Regn cld 7.05. Regd ZS-PBE 1.9.05 to JB van der Merwe, Vaalwater (based Wonderboom). Update 12 December 2011. Purchased by Vaughan Kyle in November 2010 and based at Petit Airfield. It is most likely that serial HU-187 is HU-487. It is also noted on the South African website Aviation Databases under the South African Aircraft Register section as having c/n 0U/01/1966

Somehow I’d missed out previously on the Indian Tigers story so thanks again Newforest for posting the photo 🙂

Remember knowing from the sound when Lake Buccaneer G-BBGK was in the area back in the 70s. I think it used Strathallan for maintenance. The sound certainly stood out from the usual Cessnas of AST Perth! Also surprised, given distances and the amount of surface water we have in Scotland, that there aren’t more seaplanes in use. One of the lochs nearby has been used in the past and may possibly be used again though all seems to have gone quiet presently on that plan.

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With the current “Summer” weather we could be needing more amphibians up in Scotland

The way it’s going we’ll all be needing webbed feet and gills soon lol

There was a P.166 at Turnhouse on 24th July. Too far away to get reg. though.

Lovely film – thanks for posting it. Is that 3 Ambassadors behind the Comet at the end?

Just a guess but possibly Avro Ten?

Found a very nice Scottish Screen Archive video featuring footage (from approx. 7 mins) of Airspeed Ferry; HP Hinaidi; Fox Moth; Wapiti(?) amongst others and right at the end Bluebird IV G-AAOJ.
Filmed at Renfrew, Glasgow in 1931.

http://ssa.nls.uk/film/3783?search_term=aerial circus&search_fields=Film.*&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes

It was Heinkel 111H-4 1H+JA of KG26. Crew details here –

http://www.aircrashsites-scotland.co.uk/heinkel-he111_longnewton.htm

There’s a link to a video too –

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675070948_Heinkel-Nazi-bomber_wrecked-bomber_swastika-sign_German-officials-examine

There’s also a nice little article in the wonderfully-named Up Yer Kilt magazine lol. It includes a couple of other photos –

http://www.upyerkiltmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Edition15-part-21.pdf