http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/havilland_dh-80.php
September 2009, Robin Hasting mentions “”The Heart’s Content” was overall yellow with the name in black script under the side windows with registry (G-ABXY) in large black letters on the side with the Union Jack on the upper rudder. I have sent you four pictures of the plane for reference.”
I’ve sent him an email – waiting for his response…
Sorry, don’t have any Short float data (am more into EDO floats)
DH.60 photos show both, two floats and a single float with additional little pontoons under the wings (G-AADV)
It can’t be a coincidence that Castle Bromwich airfield was close by and Wikipedia tells me it was closed in 1958. So did all these planes come from there as it was cleared in the couple of years before closing?
Maybe this? http://www.airwaysflyingclub.co.uk/history.aspx “The Airways flying club was formed in 1948 under the name of the Airways Aero Club, by employees of British European Airways (BEA) and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC).”
“Originally the club flew from Denham, Hurn and Whitchurch, operating a fleet of Miles Magisters.”
and than this: “The establishment of a Gliding Club was the end of a saga that started when Peter Hearne joined BOAC Operations Development Unit from Cranfield in 1949.”
“However the gliding bug in him was not dead, but only sleeping, and he began trying to set up a ‘Speedbird Gliding Club’.” http://www.bookergliding.co.uk/history.html
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