Maybe I should have been clearer, I saw it in it’s lovely red scheme, and now it’s in a camo scheme. As far as I know it was still red when shipped to America.

I recall seeing G-FIRE at Duxford in 1988 (from memory) before being shipped off to Bob Pond in America and painted in a rather ‘interesting’ camo scheme.

Did the Catalina ever make it to Israel or is it still hiding in France??

Certainly isn’t, lovely looking piece of kit though, same it suffered a little bit over the years.

I have on occasion spoken to a gentleman who at various times used to work and fly with Jeff Hawke, his general feeling was that Hawke was a ‘natural’ in an aircraft and that it was possible to tell from sitting in the back of an aircraft who was flying it at any particular time. I only saw Hawke fly once or twice myself, he certainly got the best out of an aircraft during a display.

Bedsheet Bomber is still owned by TFC – they want 10k for it – but at least it is more complete than the sandtoft one – ie with engines etc –

Glad Gorgeous Georgeanne has been saved – a year ago (and i know cos we looked) it could have been saved to fly – now the spar is rotten 🙁 –

Must be going to the Aviodome – and after what they did in 3 months when we sold em our spare beech i have no doubt that this will be a superb restoration

It may have engines but not a great deal in the way of a spar or any decent aluminium. Lots of nice white powder like stuff with a bit of paint here and there. 😀

Come on Anna it’s not so bad, it’s not as though it’s anything exciting like a Mustang…. 😮 😀

What shed would be accepted??? To be honest with the correct paperwork and lots of it you probably could certify a shed….