Nice colour video from the RAF Jever website showing Brian Iles with the a/c and G/C Powell Sheddon (whos name may be familiar to some readers)
http://www.rafjever.org/93sqnpic656.htm
Not trying to answer the op question but just parking this quote here….
Great videos there. Thanks for posting 🙂
The year its registration was no longer active?
Was still registered and airworthy at Strathallan and then Perth into the 1980s.
Have been pointed towards these –
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AHKY-1.pdf
which seem to confirm the Brian Iles connection.
Hello David,
I did wonder if it was connected to Sqn Ldr Brian Iles ownership but it seems a bit obscure. I think it has changed a bit over the years as it seems to have had more wording when it was at Strathallan. Unfortunatley my pic from back then is a bit fuzzy!
Not sure, but Robs might have attended the auction in his Staggerwing N18V which was painted in brown/green cammo at that time, and err… still is!
Photo of the Staggerwing (possibly N10Y?) at the auction here –
http://www.timefadesaway.co.uk/spc_history/pages/1980s/8084/mussales.htm
That’s great footage Baz. Thanks for posting it. Stewards sure had to be slim to work in that cabin!
Happy to have helped RT 🙂
I take great delight in linking you to this RT –
http://www.oshkosh365.org/saarchive/eaa_issues/magazine_195805.pdf
Must be a slightly later modification.
Some nice pics of Spider etc on here : )
Nice link 🙂 Great website
Curious now why someone named an all-yellow aeroplane “Ladybird”. I know there are yellow ladybirds but, surely, the colour most associated with that insect is red!
Roger Smith.
Think it may have been red originally, Roger. In the pic in the link it looks darker than yellow certainly. Or maybe the reporter got it the wrong way round and the Heining was the yellow one!
“Ladybird” now identified as a Potez 36 F-ALJC. Photo here –
I’ll give it some thought, though I fear you may have been reading too much Stig Larsson
Moggy
It’s my Agatha Christies, Moggy. Have to think out of the box all the time and still never get it right lol.
Long shot Moggy but they look awfully like Old Testament chapter and verse numbers. Can’t figure what A.N. would stand for though.
Sorry to hear he had a sad ending. Thanks for the info.
Joan Meakin later Joan Price. Is standing in front of a Rhonbussard glider in the photo.
Dave
Bit more about Joan in this clipping from 1936 –
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Hey baz
Thanks very much for all that. Sounds like a short though full life. Will try to find out what happened to him.
Can’t quite place which field they would have used for the Flying Circus. It’s not the flattest of areas round here.
The Joan Meakin clip is really interesting too.