David, once again, thankyou for your kind input 🙂 although i think that you may find when the issue with removal of parts, in this instance, was raised, that may have been the implication.

This seems to have turned rather nasty, with some of us making this a personal issue (or so it seems) what happens with this particular mossie, is down to what the canadian law stipulates, and what the museum decide to do. I dont deny that i would love to see it here and possibly restored to airworthy condition. My opinion however makes no difference. with regards to some of the comments about the restoration of the hurricane, For example the likelyhood of the airframe being raped of all the airworthy parts, and having essentially rubbish being put in its place, (I dont know about you guys but to me, it’s theft) I really dont think that any accomplished aircraft restoration team would do this, and really paints all of them with a very bad brush. in all honesty its fair to say that some of the comments that have been made seem to be slanderous, then again thats me. perhaps this thread should be locked? I dont know but lets not all jump to conclusions and hope that whatever happens is best in the long run for the aircraft itself, eh?

Nashi0

i agree, its been freely admitted on this thread that it was in fact made in england:cool:

Could a group be formed to go to the owner with ideas of preservation and manpower

There is not only one owner and this suggestion has been tried in the past!:(

that was the reason for me joining this forum, to find out more about them and see what could be done. got a couple of PMs from local ish people (as i live about 5 miles away) to say they were really interested in helping. unfortunately even when i offered to just go and cut the grass and invest my own money into doing something for them, i was met with a flat no. i think exact words were “no im sorry, we don’t do that anymore” i have since made a point of avoiding long marston as everytime i go there it just makes me sad 🙁

… going spare??? :diablo:

JB, lovely idea, but in reality who is going to spend that much money on a beautiful aircraft (to do it would be a deeply personal thing i would have thought) only to give it away? still we can all dream, if it means she comes here and flys again, ill donate money towards it 😮

could be interesting, though at the end of the day the whole idea of making a mould of the airframe and making it from carbon fibre wont be cheap will it? i dont really know but i would have thought that it would be more expensive in the long run wouldnt it? also thinking in terms of certification certainly in this country, maybe a problem?

oh right, i really didnt know that! so in effect she is an operational aircraft of the Raf? i really hope mr McHenry will fly again one day 🙁