Hi Lion Rock,
just got this tiny pic and info.
‘I photographed this Chipmunk, N4TG, at Florida’s Tamiami Airport in February 1984 – apart from sporting a modified engine, what stopped me in my tracks were visible traces of its former identity – 5Y-KLS: the very aeroplane on which my father learned to fly at Nairobi’s Wilson Airport in 1970. Later he took a very small P2 flying in it occasionally (no doubt bolstered by many seat cushions!). It started life with the RAF, perhaps based in East Africa and “disposed of” locally in the late 1950s; a batch of RAF Chipmunks joined the pre-independence Kenyan civil register in the VP-KL* batch. N4TG is now a Beech T-34 and the Chippie’s whereabouts unknown.’
Julian Treadwell
Martin
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