Poor ‘DJ’ actually came down about 2 miles NE of Henley O Thames, spun in seemingly, very sad.

There is a Tiger owner in Sweden who gets weary of repeating that his one is actually the oldest flying, not the oft-quoted G-ACDC. Might be true, someone will know!

Well, it is true! There was a special celebration and fly in at Skå-Edeby (ESSE) on the 17 June last year – on the date 75 years, exactly, since Tiger Moth SE-ADF was first registered. See

http://www.sff.n.se/aktuellt_arkiv_2007.htm#Tiger_Moth_firade_75_år_i_Sverige_

Owner is The Royal Swedish Aero Club, the same owner since 1949! SE-ADF, c/n 3113, was built by De Havilland at Stag Lane in May/June 1932.

Here is a pic of SE-ADF taken at the fly in at Visingsö (ESSI) last year: http://www1.airpics.com/showimg.php?imgid=120504

John Romain fuel up G-CCCA prior to dept EHLE yesterday afternoon

More pics: http://lae.blogg.se/1210424961_lelystad_080509__2.html

Phantom Phil,

May I ask – how come this intrest in this Meteor? 🙂

SE-CAS together with sistership SE-DCC at Bromma in 1972:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0378876

I’ve checked on the TFC Falco, it’s from Sweden, however it was delivered during the period of the Battle, could it not have been from squadron service in France, or were they all specific new builds.

All the Fiat CR.42s (J 11) delivered to Sweden were new built a/c! Date of delivery for FV-no. 2542 (now G-CBLS) was 21.05.41.

More Norsemen

Following the thread on the King Alfred tower crash, here is a fairly fluid list of current Norseman aircraft airworthy.

http://pweb1.mts.net/~donmag/index.htm

…and among the non-airworthy Norsemen preseved in museums here in Sweden is also SE-CPB (89):
http://www1.airpics.com/showimg.php?imgid=108787

The one on display at the Flygvapenmuseum is SE-CLZ.

Strictly speaking, the BA-7 first flight on 10 October 1958 was Björn Andreason’s own-built aircraft, Bolköw came into the picture much later after MFI redesigned it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malm%C3%B6_MFI-9

Well, sort of … but have in mind that it was Björn Anderasson who did this whilst working at MFI and one thing led to another… 🙂

If you had asked Björn Andreasson, he would had stated that BA-7 and MFI-9 was the same thing.

The Swedish one is a Saab 91A Safir, with a 120 hp Gipsy engine, as used by the Swedish Air Force for liaison and given the type number Tp 91 (Transport 91). The number 8 shows that it was based at Barkarby, near Stockholm, as part of F 8 (8th Wing).
This aircraft is very similar to the 3rd production model we have at the Aeroseum, Gothenburg, which was privately owned and used as a tourer for many years by Uno Ranch, the Triumph motorcycle distributor for Sweden, and is still flying.
Later Saab 91s had Lycoming engines.

This is Tp 91 Fv-s/n 91123. TOC 15.8.47 and SOC 9.5.60. It was probably based in the UK at the time and used by the Swedish Air Attaché. 91123 was later exchanged for 91118 which was w/o in the UK 13.7.59.