2-seaters

The Flypast article only deals with single seaters i’m afraid, although Ian Sheffield has a anon’ 2-seater (pictured on page 20 current issue) that i’m helping him with.

This may or may not be from XW272 ? As it originated from Dunsfolds dump where ‘272’s cockpit has been noted.

Just down the road at Leuchars is XW265 privately owned by Stewart Milne who runs the ATC there.

While the Jet Age Museum at Staverton has XW264, and XW268 is in a scrapyard in Sussex (or was ?)

Aside from that, theres a few scattered here and there at bases still such as Yeovilton and Wittering.

Anybody care to continue the survivors list ?

Dave B’ what say yee ?

Airframes recently moved ?

Any updates ?

Quote “I dont own a Moth” nuff said !!

I couldn’t disagree more. I don’t own a Moth, but I just love reading Stuart McKay’s ramblings in The Moth. He is one of the friendliest, loveliest people I know. Additionally, the Woburn Moth Rally is set in stone in my diary. All the Moth owners I know (and there are a few) are some of my favourite people and I wouldn’t particularly consider myself part of a close-knit community..

I dont recall saying Stuart ~isn’t~ a lovely guy… he is, and a gong from queenie to prove it, and the Moth rally is ~the~ place to be, especially as, if your a Chipmunk devotee, Ralphs Chippie Club gives you admission as well (eg: You dont have to be a DH Moth member to get airside)

No, what i said was… and you must have read it, because you near enough said it yourself… is that it’s a very closed knit community dedicated to its current Moth owning membership.

Anybody new seeking help, technical advice, parts etc… 😡 well, nuff said really.

Dave,

Yes i have that magazine, but how about expediting those copies of Classic Wings 2 and 3 in return ?

As its been quite a while since you said you would do them !

Re: Torbay

The museum closed down in the late eighties & the contents auctioned off. The site is now a luxury flat complex (or similar).

Andy H’ from Newton Abbott (who owns Sea Vixen cockpit XN650) and is ‘HMS Vulture’ on this forum, should be able to answer most questions as he’s a member of the Devon A/C Recovery Team, whose exhibits were on show at Torbay (but now in storage).

The Fa330 is now with the FAAM (in the Cobham hall), the Vampire XE995 was recently owned (and now scrapped) by… Mr Richard Hukins of Kent, and the SeaHawk cockpit (not mentioned in the list above) was acquired by myself and turned out to be WF145 (3rd pre-production a/c), but having passed through the Welshpool cockpit collection, is now cherished by Stuart Gowans. The Sycamore is (continuing its role as a plaything) at Caernarfon, along with the Dove, Dragonfly and Varsity cockpit.

Hey….Mark G…. if your visiting the sunny South West, why not pop in to visit us mortals down here ? I’m sure we could organise a tour of our cockpits, garage contents & other assorted items of interest ? 😉

Yes, but has anyone ask NASA if it could be recovered.

But did NASA ever go to the moon ?

I thought it was all filmed in the desert & anybody who blabbed thereafter was bumped off when passing any grassy knoll (LoL) 😀