Originally posted by Moggy C
Ah – a man who’d prefer a Cessna 152 to a Spitfire :rolleyes:

Clearly a knowledgeable and discerning aviation enthusiast.

Your mother didn’t know any blokes from Abingdon when she was younger did she?

Moggy

Never have been a big fan of Spitfires 😉

now with a following wind and a bit of good luck I could afford a Cessna 152, which is more than could be said for a Spitfire.

I bought a car from a bloke in Abingdon once if that counts, I won’t do that again in a hurry either.

There was a Mosquito from Skyfame, but this is the one that the IWM have on static display at Duxford and not the one that went to TFC. As for the Tempest, I thought that Skyfame sold this whilst it was on loan to the IWM just before the rest of the fleet was transfered to IWM ownership. May be wrong however.

Originally posted by Snapper
Can we do flyers too? Such as, for example, the TF-51?

No, much blood will be shed if we do.

Originally posted by DOUGHNUT
I can think of two or three American collections that would be happy to spend a bit of money on another British aeroplane, take to bits and let it join a very long line of other aircraft stored, out of sight awaiting restoration.

and of course the aircraft is so visible with it’s present owners

From memory the Jaguar at Coltisall is stuck up a pole (which must please Snapper) just inside the gate. I drove past it recently and it looks ok, but as it didn’t have a propellor on the front I didn’t take a great deal of notice.

I know certainly there was a Spitfire in the NOTAM’s in the Horham area on Sunday but forget the time, didn’t see it however. Glad you had good weather over on the Norfolk Suffolk border it was overcast all day with thunderstorms late afternoon / evening whch made for a spectacular sight at 2500 feet.

I saw no BBMF, just a beautiful Mustang and Harvard 🙂

Originally posted by Willow
Hopefully it doesn’t have any restoration paperwork issues.

Is it owned by a well known operator or by someone new, does anyone know?

The aircraft has been flying for many years, it has been at North Weald for some time being placed onto the UK register, any issues that have been found have been resolved or are in the process of being resolved by working with the CAA. I think we can leave the ‘restoration paperwork issues’ alone as this has alledgedly only occured with 1 warbird and my understanding is that this situation may be being resolved.
If you work with the CAA you will be able to fly your aircraft, however if you pitch up and say here is my aeroplane and I’m going to fly it they may take a dim view.

The Mustang is owned by Peter Teichman who also has the former Intrepid Staggerwing.
Be nce to see this beastie out and about.