Unfortunately the Flight don’t work weekends (except for during the display season when they departing to/arriving from shows). Where you parked your aircraft in 1988 may very well be a different place to where it would be parked these days, though.

Don’t suppose you still have his flying logbooks do you, Prudence?

Tragic news. Sincere condolences to his family.

One word of caution: if the varnish is compromised at any point it can trap in moisture and be more damaging than not varnishing.

Interesting – not heard of that one. Did you manage to get anywhere with the stencils I sent you?

http://s545.photobucket.com/albums/hh391/XE584/Sea%20Hawks%20at%20Hooton%20Park/ WV831 which from demobbed site makes it a FGA6 scrapped 12/81 from Farnham College.

Fareham College, not Farnham. Bits were still there when I was doing my ONC and HNC between 1991 and 1995 – the most recognisable bit being one aileron, still painted black, and mounted on a wall. The rest consisted of components.

Looking closer at our published histories it may seem that some confusion has arisen along the way – easily done, as I’m sure you can all now see!

WV795 is listed as being a “nose only by 10.81”, which clearly isn’t correct as the whole aircraft is now at Dunsfold. The entry, however, obviously relates correctly to this mystery nose section which subsequently passed to Dr R Poulter at Peasedown St.John by 11.81.

The construction number issue is interesting too, and I’d welcome anyone with access to other Sea Hawks who could check the data plates out (I didn’t know where it was, so I’ll have a look at WV908 and WV911 next week to confirm theirs). Theirs, however, will be slightly different to WF145 as they were built by AWA rather than Hawker, and therefore the numbering sequence won’t be the same – a system that has never fully been worked out.