According to the FAA website, the ex-Southend machine, now N156FS, is registered to Kermit Weeks as an exhibit.

This was fun, last summer…..bonus point for guessing the type!!

Following a sudden burst of nostalgia, thought I’d update the ‘Where are they now’ list as there have been a few changes in recent years:

Southend Museum 2 Nov 1980

WJ288 Sea Fury To USA – Flying with Commermerative Air Force Tennessee as N15S
XL811 Skeeter To IHM Weston Super Mare
XP165 Saro P531/SCout To IHM Weston Super Mare
GANLW Westland Widgeon Now at Sywell via Tattershall Thorpe, Little Staughton, Wellingborough and Blackpool. Norfolk & Suffolk Museum, Flixton
42-12392/TA392 T6 RAFM Hendon
XG425 Lightning Nose section Now at ATC Rayleigh, Essex
XE364 Sea Hawk Gatwick Aviation Museum
VZ638 Meteor Gatwick Aviation Museum
XH768 Javelin Now at Cerbaiola Italy
29640 Saab J-29 Midland Air Museum, Coventry
XB261 Beverley. We all know the story of this one – Cockpit now at Newark (via Duxford)
HD368 B25 North Weald – Wycombe
G-29-1 Lincoln Dismantled at Sandtoft via North Weald- Old chestnut, now in Melbourne, Oz
VH-FDT DH Drover SWAAPS Museum, Lasham
XK625 Vampire, Now at Brenzett, Kent via Firbeck and North Weald
GADXS Pou De Ciel – Breighton, Yorks
GACIT DH84 Dragon- Wroughton
GANDE Tiger Moth – Was this really G-PE?
NP303/GANZJ Percival Proctor- Destroyed
FU-6 Sabre – F84 Thunderstreak – Cosford store (Thunderbirds scheme)
GAGPG Avro Anson – Hooton Park
WV483 Provost – US
GACIT DH84 Dragon—SCIENCE MUSEUM WROUGHTON
11064 Fiesler Storch—FLORIDA, USA
GAWIW Stampe Rothmans colours—PT FLIGHT COSFORD
GAWHB Casa 211—SOLD BY ACES 2003 TO US BASED COLLECTER – Norfolk
MM53211 Fiat G46—FRANCE
GAVHE Viscount BMA To Air Classic at Dusseldorf then ???—STUTTGART

I have a vague recollection of G-ANPE moving over to the Airport site (the sheds opposite what used to be Harvest Air) and being restored. I also have a Museum poster, which features drawings of Tiger G-ANPE, Gipsy Moth G-ATBL and Fox Moth G-ACEJ, but I don’t remember ever seeing them in the Museum.

My memories weren’t always happy ones.

Pouring rain (’84?), traffic chaos (sat in a queue for 2 hours), the T34 crash, Michael Thomas scoring for Arsenal in the 88th minute to win the League at Anfield (many beers downed that night, drowning my Liverpool sorrows and having the mother of all hangovers the next day) and, of course, the tragic Vintage Pair.

Ligtnings ‘scrambling’ to intercept Hawks was pretty special though.

There’s one here: –
http://staverton.fotopic.net/p34902395.html