While it’s a bit quiet here is a few from the past;
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Curtiss P-40B Warhawk (‘284′ ’18P’ 41-13297 G-CDWH by Mark Handley, on Flickr
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B17 Sally B 124485 by Mark Handley, on Flickr
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Hunter and Mustang by Mark Handley, on Flickr
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P47 Snafu by Mark Handley, on Flickr
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Swordfish by Mark Handley, on Flickr
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Spitfire MK1 by Mark Handley, on Flickr
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Yak 2 by Mark Handley, on Flickr
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F86A Sabre by Mark Handley, on Flickr
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P51 Mustang Princess Elizabeth by Mark Handley, on Flickr
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P51 Princess Elizabeth and P47 Snafu by Mark Handley, on Flickr
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Hurrican P3886 : UF-K of 601 Squadron by Mark Handley, on Flickr
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BBMF Dakota ZA947 (Explored 11/1/14) by Mark Handley, on Flickr

Thanks for looking!

View my Duxford albums on flickr if you want more 🙂

You need one of these!

A good safety record apply’s to the aircraft itself, how many of the incidents were due to aircraft structure / engine failure?

I’m not sure where you get your figures from Easyrider. The 5,000 attendees for an OW show sounds like a made-up number (with a degree of wishful thinking attached)

The true figures are readily available online at: http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends34/0000307534_AC_20141031_E_C.pdf

They show that in 2014 (the last year for which figures are available) a total of 18,684 people attended airshows there, so an average of around 2,000 per event.

The increase in cost is not £900 per event, but around £2,000, as there is also a doubling of the event fee as well as the new post-event charge. That means an addition of around £20,000 to the cost of events at OW of the course of a season, a not inconsiderable sum. And that is before any possible increases in insurance, policing costs and charges made by visiting display items (which will presumably also need to increase in order to recover the additional costs they will be incurring) etc.

It is a made up number by creaking door 😀

I’m not sure your interpeting the situation correctly, I doubt the figures your quoting are correct, were do you get 2K per event if say 24 aircraft are displayed?

And have you taken account of the existing fees paid (which I assume are already in ticket prices) the increase in gate prices need only be for the increases proposed, it is difficault to get to a figure but I say it will be less cost increase than is being suggested and certainly not “The death knell for many UK aviation events” !

I wonder what the ‘gate’ is at a typical Old Warden display? Maybe 5000 people? Anybody know?

Now at the new suggested £20,000 fee that would add (roughly) £4 to the ticket, currently £30 I think; now that’s not a massive amount but that’s on a good weather day when the turnout is good. What about the wash-out days? What if far fewer people turn-up? Does the ticket price have to be set higher to cover the fee just in case fewer people turn-up?

There will (probably) be events that cannot continue under this new fee structure. So will the airshow costs of the CAA have to be covered by fewer events and the fees rise again?

Will more people baulk at the rising costs and choose to stand outside the events that do continue?

Here is a illustration worked out on their posted display for the Premier opening airshow in May;

Visiting Aircraft
•Bristol Blenheim
•Global Stars aerobatic team
•Calidus (Peter Davis)
•B17 “Sally B”
•P51D Mustang (Pete Teichman)
•Tiger 9 (Formation team)

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Collection Aircraft
•Westland Lysander
•Avro Anson (BAE)
•Polikarpov PO2
•Gloster Gladiator
•Hawker Sea Hurricane 1b
•Hawker Hurricane R4118 (HH)

Currently 13 display items, lets say it ends up as 18, thats £900 divided by your assumed gate of 5000 over the weekend, that’l put 18 pence on the ticket price.

http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/statutory%20charges%20GA%20final.pdf

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Built by Avro at Yeadon;

“Part of the fifth production batch of 350 aircraft built by A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Yeadon, Yorkshire (being the second part of Contract No. 1807, and the first part of Works Order No. 8589). First 10 aircraft LM301-LM310 built as Mk.I’s, the remainder built as Mk.III’s: LM311-LM346, LM359-LM395, LM417-LM448, LM450-LM493, LM508-LM552, LM569-LM599, LM615-LM658, LM671-LM697 and LM713-LM756. Deliveries commenced 11-42; completed 10-44 (average rate of production, approximately 3.6 aircraft per week).”

From http://www.lancaster-archive.com/lanc_prod_avro2.htm

Thanks for that, Have bookmarked the site for the future

It would cost more than ‘558’ to get her to fly .

There is a difference between preparing an aircraft for a projected public display life of a number of years and a one off ferry flight of moderate distance, say 100 mile radius, I’m not saying it will happen, not in the UK anyway