Hi Bob,
Welcome to the mad, mad world of the Key, Historic Aviation Forum 🙂

I’m afraid I can’t help with the bits you want but if I may make a suggestion about the forum…..

If you add (or ask one of the Mods to add) your Seahawk’s serial (and maybe it’s location) to the name of the thread then, when you can spare the time, add updates and photos of your progress and, of course, occasionally tell/remind readers what bits you need.

Good luck, Roger Smith

It flew so fast you thought you’d seen a Mirage 😉

Roger Smith

If you haven’t already, you could consult Ken Ellis’s “Wrecks & Relics”.

The index in the current edition (24th) lists 9 locations for F-100s and 9 (including Spadeham) for Mystere IVs.

25th edition should be out soon?

Roger Smith.

Thanks Maxim for reminding us – I think I looked for the thread a couple of times but, without “Siskin” in the title, !!!! The thread is now 7 1/2 years old.

OyYou last posted in July so, thankfully, he’s still around.

Roger Smith.

………. I also believe there is another couple of aircraft in that collection that will be a bit of a surprise.

Didn’t the earlier thread referred to have a photograph of several of the Lancaster FSMs in a hangar and in the background what appeared to be a Wellington. Or it may have been visible on the mentioned interview with PJ. Think the interviewer was Stephen Fry who wrote the screenplay????

Of course I could be more delalley than I thought I was…..

Roger Smith.

Thanks Spey – I’d obviously got the wrong specs on yesterday 🙂 The only one I got right (which you got a bit wrong) was, as Consul points out, the 206 at Baginton.

Roger Smith.

In 1973 we (the Midland Air Museum) exchanged a Battle cockpit section with RAF Leeming for spares for our Meteor F.4, EE531. Leeming were, at that time, restoring the Battle recovered from Iceland (that had a burned-out cockpit) and now on display at Hendon. The cockpit had been recovered (5th April, 1970) from an out-of-use scrapyard at Ketley Bank, Shropshire.

Coincidentally on 5th April, 1975 (5 years after the Ketley Bank recovery) we were at the Baldock scrapyard obtaining spares from the Vampire F.1 the RAF Museum had sent there for our own, VF301. We extracted and purchased main undercarriage legs, fuel tanks and engine bay panels for £20. I remember we saw other aircraft from an RAFM ‘clear-out’ that included a Stirling(?) rear fuselage section.

Roger Smith.

Work is going on in the Isle of Wight to restore the oldest surviving Islander (G-AVCN – the third built) in the care of The Britten Norman Aircraft Preservation Society

Go to: http://www.ivanberrymandirect.com/bnaps.htm for further information.

Roger Smith.