There are several reasons why the aircraft was painted grey rather than bare metal.

The main reason is that take too long to remove all of the paint and get the metal to a suitable finish. Time is money, and if you want to be charged £150 for a pleasure flight instead of the very reasonable £50 then perhaps Atlantique would consider removing the paint.

Again, due to time constraints, if the staff spent most of their time removinig paint then there wouldn’t be any time left to do the maintenance on the rest of the aircraft, I’m sure you’d all be moaning more if Atlantique had a lovely collection of static aircraft that couldn’t fly!

Another problem, is that looking at black and white photographs of Dakotas its not easy to see if its grey or bare metal, perhaps they just looked outside at their Pembroke that is grey and did it the same?

The aircraft has been painted in these colours purely for their own benefit, not necessarily for film work, but just because they wanted to.

I think its a great looking aircraft, and I hope it will fly for many years to come!

Jon.

Air Atlantique also have G-AZHJ in store for spares use,

regards,

Jon.

Bournemouth Sea Prince did have the N7SY register, but was de-registered a long time ago. Supposedly for sale, but when I enquired about buying her the owners decided they wanted to keep her after all.

G-AMLZ is indeed being saved by someone in exchange for an Auster as previously mentioned. I personally offered to save this aircraft and restore her, but someone else beat me to it.

At Van Nuys (USA) is another short nosed Prince N206UP, in a sorry state but the owner is convinced that she will fly again (unlikely)

The Sea Prince at Long Marston WM735 G-RACA has now been painted pink in the colours of ‘Gods Kitchen’ which is a nightclub/rave that is obviously held at the airfield.

There is a Sea Prince in Toronto that is virtually flyable, and for sale. WF133

Percivals did make a floatplane model of the Prince, but it never got any further than that. There is a picture of the model in J.Sylvester’s book on Percivals.

Regards,

Jon.

About 34 Pembrokes, 1 President, 2 Princes, 1 Survey Prince and 12 Sea Princes on my list of survivors.

Regards,

Jon.

Try Air Atlantique’s NEW website which is updated.

http://www.airatlantique.co.uk

Go to the ‘Group Companies’ menu, then select Classic Flight.

Regards,

Jon.

I understand that everyone sees this as another NIMBY, and quite rightly so. BUT he doesn’t want the airfield shut, he would like to cut down the amount of parachuting, aeros, and heli flights.

Surely its not too much bother to do aeros somewhere else (I usually fly for 10 mins away from my airfield before practising displays), get parachute aircraft to fly South for 10mins then North for 10mins to be at jump height, thus minimizing time overhead, and organize alternate pleasure routes for heli flights.

When I have been pleasure flying at Duxford, the first flight is on a Northern route, second Eastern route, third Southern route, fourth Western route, then repeat. This effectively cuts the flights over villages by a quarter.

I realise that I could be shooting myself in the foot by sounding positive about this protest, but as long as its intentions are to keep the airfield open and just reduce the nuisance noise then I don’t see a problem.

HOWEVER!!! I do not agree with the comments on Mr Freeman, nor the posting of incorrect statements.

Jon.
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