Wonderful photos – thank you for posting them.

Which day(s) at the weekend do they open? I’ll try and drop by this weekend. Who can I expect to see to speak to?

I am pretty much certain I visited on a Saturday morning last summer but perhaps more lucky than anything as Sunday is indeed their main day. From their website: We are open on every Sunday from early April till the end of October – 12noon till 5pm, last entry 4pm. Depending on staff availability the museum tries to be open on a Saturday during the same period. Organized group visits are welcome at other times, by prior arrangement. Access to the airfield is restricted, although group tours can be arranged subject to sufficient notice and the airfield manager’s agreement.

Website: http://www.removablemedia.com/northweald/index.html

The last couple of shows at North Weald were set up by a friend of Dave Gilmours from Pink Floyd

That was Brendan Walsh – he worked for Dave runnning his aviation interests.

Was it not the proximity to Stansted that was the demise of the North Weald airshows?, Thats how I have always understood it.. rightly or wrongly.

Nope – nothing to do with Stansted. Its quite possible to stage shows at Weald in the future (and there is growing will to do so) so long as someone is prepared to stand up and organise one. The inauguration of the gate guard Hurricane earlier this year had an excellent turn-out and showed what could be possible once again.

Working on that assumption Janie, it wont be long before RAIT and Legends are curtailed eh? 🙂

Any commercial out-door spectator event that is seriously affected by weather (ie poor attendance and reduced income), repeatedly, is not going to survive for long.

Just a thought, what category does TE184/G-MXVI fall into restoration or recreation.

Restoration

Originally built as a low back Mk.XVI then converted to a high back configuration, how does that work with the CAA rules?

You advise them you are re-building the aircraft to high-back configuration (many 16’s were built that way), in a similar way to modern day conversions of single seat Mk IX’s to T.IX’s.

Excellent photos as usual Gary – and very nice to meet you in person at last!

A Yak 3 which will do a display

Yes – D-FJAK ‘White 100’ – same one that appeared at Legends this year.

Will they be using it to train prospective warbird pilots?

I suspect the other (airworthy) T.20 they have purchased will be a more likely candidate, in the short term.