Talk about cutting off their nose to spite their face. If they don’t allow him to put it back up and let it sell, they miss out on the fees they would’ve earned..which would have been a LOT!

I’ll be watching this thread with interest! Have always been fascinated with the S-67, great looking machine

There was some kind of Yorkshire based aviation archaeology group active up until the 70s/80 I believe, there may be details of them in White Rose Base by Brian Rapier.

..a hugely charismatic aircraft…very,VERY noisey..throttles in the roof..big swing on take off..possibly the very last of the “real” mens planes…

“..A flight engineer called George S***ge was on the flight deck of an Air Charter York (..G_AMUS..??) along with Captain Don MacKenzie – he later became chief pilot of British United Airways.. George seemed quite miserable when halfway down the runway Don turned to George and said “cheer up George.” George thought he said – gear up George. The rest is history as one very sad York sank back on the runway with very bent propellers.” (with thanks to Roy Saxton)

..something dad told me possibly with a pinch of salt, but knowing dad probably not…he was first officer with Don on Yorks..

I really hope this tale is true, it’s had me chuckling at my desk!

Haha! I wondered when the price discussion would start. You wouldn’t pay that price for it, but hopefully someone will because he doesn’t restore aircraft for charity, it’s his business! And when you deduct a year’s worth of hard graft, cost of giant Airfix kit, transportation to place of restoration, sourcing missing parts from all round the country, wages, research, staff, VAT etc etc the price looks pretty reasonable.

I remember reading in Bomber Command News (is that still going?!) at the time that they’d been gifted 4 airworthy Hercules engines by the French airforce…did YAM use these engines or were they swapped for ‘static’ ones so they could be used in an airworthy machine?