David Beale, owner of G-APIE and Tipsy guru, took a look at this thread the other night and came back to me with a few comments…,.
Apparently the tail wheel on my aeroplane came not from G-APOD but from G-AOXO which crashed at Eastbach Farm after hitting a fence post and was sawn up for scrap. This seems logical as G-AISA was based at Eastbach at around that time.
‘POD, on David’s last discussions with owners son was still complete but dismantled, stored in various locations around the Dundee area. It is in need of some major rebuild work due to old age and oil soaking of fuselage timber, glue failure, time expired engine etc.
Also many mods were done. The owner wants to rebuild back to original Tipsy BC pre war spec, but there are no original detail drawings, only photos of the pre-war Tipsy BC (the Belfair name was only used for the 6 post war planes).
The three UK-registered Belfairs were all built in Belgium then shipped to the UK in the early 1950s. Although the first registered, ‘OXO was the third of the trio to be assembled after being trapped in containers in Yorkshire for 10 years due to import regulations post war.
David met, a few years ago, the guy who was first owner of POD. He put it together and lived next to Beverley Airfield. He said he crashed it on doing his first solo in it but not seriously!
Willip, if you want me to put you in touch with David, drop me PM and I will send you his details…..
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