Ah! Could have been I was whizzing past at the time saw the logo and thought it your thread- soz! 

I guess they will be working closely with the former Flying Heritage Collection – not least because presumably they have a lot of the CAD data they used in their reconstruction thus far which should speed things up considerably I would have thought?

TT

That looks terrific John- superb job! 
 

TT

That was ace thanks for sharing

Wait n see should be some good news in ‘24! 
 

meantimes well done to those who try and keep this forum alive , sad shadow of its former self that it is 

I think that’s B.206 G-FLYP in the foreground too – a blast from the past for our older readers and appropriate in this forum!

TT

Easy questions to answer. Some Harvards/T-6 series were armed with either a cowl gun or wing gun – IIRC the Commonwealth ones were mainly a single wing mounted Browning for gunnery training. That explains the firing button. Secondly, the Canadian built machines or rather the majority destined for Commonwealth service were specified with a spade grip – a la the fighters on which the pilots would progress. The ‘normal’ T-6 series had a B-5 pistol type grip from the US factorys/for US service. So put simply the spade grips were sourced in for Commonwealth spec, and made by Dunlop who made the majority of spade grips.

Sadly, unless there is a serial number of an airframe marked on it- you wont be able to trace the machine it was fitted to.

TT

Wow!