Just a thought, but perhaps the earlier spinner won’t get accepted by the CAA within the ‘Permit to fly’ regulations. Another question is: is it the right prop to go with the old-type spinner? Perhaps this prop hub doesn’t fit inside the old spinner?

B-25s in Europe

As far as I know, after ‘Grumpy’ moves to the US the following B-25s will still be around:

1. The Duke of Brabant Airforce example, which will move to Gilze Rijen in the near future to be operated together with the Royal Netherlands Airforce Historical Flight:

Obviously she’s now in Netherlands East-Indies colours as ‘Sarinah’:

http://www.dbaf.org/

2. The Red Bulls aircraft, operated from Salzburg, Austria:

http://www.flyingbulls.com

3. The French B-25J F-AZID has been for sale for quite some time now but is apparently still stored at Dijon. For more info have a look here: http://b25forsale.free.fr

As for the static ones (or the ones Jeff Hawke abandoned 😉 ) I’ll leave it to someone else to sort through those.

Grumman Tigercat then? Its the only Grumman we haven’t mentioned yet! :rolleyes:

I was going to say the French based Avenger for both, but I think that one’s just the wheel then.

Edit: is the prop boss off a Corsair then? Seem to remember there’s one or two of those (presumably with three-bladers) in France as well.

That realli is impressive. I wonder why the port wing is missing.

Actually, both wings are missing there! The top photo shows it being towed from the factory where it was converted to the airfield where filming took place. The wings were attached later.

The second photo also shows the other Li-2 that doubled as a C-47 in the movie. Also evident from this photo is the shortened undercarriage on the ‘Wellington’ which gave it the correct ground angle.

and another guess the A/C and Place 😀 😀 😀 enjoying them?

Looks a bit like a P-51 leg to me. No clue about the location though.

Found the article:

The most ‘active’ of the Vickers airliners is indeed the VC10. The RAF still flies them actively with 101 Sqn and 10 Sqn. For a full list have a look here: http://www.vc10.net/History/RAFVC10s.html

The Vanguard fleet is down to just one complete survivor: G-APEP ‘Superb’ in Merchantmen configuration at The Brooklands Museum. Maintained in ‘live’ condition since it flew in in 1996 but now unable to taxi around the site as recent developments have forced the closure of the runway. It taxied for the last time on May 29th of this year, more info about this can be found here

As for the Viscounts, as far as I know there may still be one or two operational in Africa, but that’s it. The Oldprops site is usually a good starting point to find out about surviving propliners etc.

As for Vikings and Varsitys the last airworthy one I think was a Varsity that was flown by the RAF, but I’ll leave it to other forum members to fill in the dates for that story. For details of survivors see the Oldprops site again. There are quite a few Varsitys in museums but the Viking is less frequently spotted. For the interested reader, there is some info on this page about how G-AGRU (seen below) ended up in the Brooklands Museum, and how another Viking is now seen in Austria in Austrian Airlines colours.