Just to clarify: that’s not the aircraft owned by the same owner as Enstone’s.
The two Horizons are privately owned and form a restoration packet. The Cub is a privately owned long-term project, as is ‘KBO. They’ll probably move on to somewhere else. The Freighter: unsure. There’s a fair bits and pieces of more more modern stuff around for parts recovery and those’ll probably not make it. The vintage gliders have been moved on to new owners and are under restoration now.
Gardan Horizon. One of two present. Fin of the other one is visible behind ‘KBO.
Tailsection, other engine, nose doors, fin, stabilizer are in another nearby hangar (fin visible in background of the Miles). And a heap of other stuff requiring attention ranging from boats to airplanes, and from quads to office furniture.
Props sitting in front of semi-open hangar.
Engine in the halfopen semi-round hangar.
Wing behind the big halfround hangar. Various parts (cowlings, undercarriage etc) underneath it.
Where is this other unairworthy Freighter ?
Canada.
No secret there, Sky High.
I asked him recently when negotiating the purchase of another aircraft from him. He mentioned several enquiries about the Freighter remains (also from an established museum), but indicated he declined. I got the impression saving the Freighter bits is not high on his list of priorities indeed. He is also the owner of another (very unairworthy) Freighter and may want to hang on to his only possible spare parts source (along with the paperwork that goes with it). Even if it means that they will deteriorate beyond use eventually.
I am sure the owner would prefer to see them in a safe place with an accredited museum if he were asked .
Frankly, I would be surprised.
For some reason the Key server has not been very coöperative for some days uploading pics. Strange, will try and remember for later on…
As a collection of parts: no. However, there’s a whole bunch of significant parts that could fly again on a different airframe. And certainly the wings are easily restorable on a static airframe.
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Last year:
Wings (wingtip to wingtip uncluding a section of mid upper fuselage) are sitting behind the hangar. Props (bent) sitting alongside the same hangar. One engine hanging in chains inside the semi-open hangar. A nearby small hangar houses the other engine, vertical tail and aft fuselage, stabilizers, nose doors, undercarriage. The owner told me the front fuselage/cockpit is sitting under wraps on his driveway.
Have pics if you’re interested.
Thank you Dave, PM sent.
Re the restoration, we are now working on putting the CofG hook in, but have run into some extra work (surprise) because the lower part of frame 2 and 3 have not been rebuilt to manufacturer’s drawings after a heavy landing. At the same time rebuilding the after fuselage a bit, with a new skid attachment already in and now a lot of ply work to be done.