Quote Originally Posted by Kenneth
I followed the live video on Facebook. What a fantastic achievement. Sad, in a way, that a concurrent thread in this forum about the new paint scheme of one many Spitfires has been viewed more often.
You have to take solace in the old saying ‘quality over quantity’ then.

T J

Der er nok ikke andet at gøre…

A statement from SCFA, the Constellation operators, was copied from Facebook and posted in the forum in my signature. In short, Breitling has indeed terminated sponsorship, after extensive repair/maintenance work the aircraft is expected to fly again on May 1, 2018. And they’re short of more than 1 million Swiss Francs….

Thanks for the info!

IIRC, ‘DK was acquired in the early Seventies by the prolific Danish vintage aircraft collector Jens Toft and was passed on by him to the now defunct Danmarks Flyvemuseum. As stated earlier, I saw it in 1982 or 1983 – or rather what remained of it – while it was in storage at Kongelundsfortet, a Danish Air Force Hawk AA-missile battery south of Copenhagen Airport. Considering the mess that that organization made of the aircraft donated to it, I’m so pleased to see it in good hands in the country where it belongs.

I seem to recall having seen the CV880 and CV990 type certificates, parts and a couple of aircraft for sale with Courtesy Aircraft not too long ago.

Many thanks for those great photos from a venue which is very unusual in this forum. Not many places left in the world where you can see a flying Mirage III..

Great work, congratulations! Always happy landings! Those who criticize this kind of aircraft have little clue regarding the amount of work that goes into itö.

Yes, also mentioned in the text, at least a Danish tailcone, nose and vertical stabilizer. Quite a few were painted olive green and placed on various air bases in Denmark as decoys after being phased out at the end of the Fifties, remaining there until essentially all decoys (including quite a few F-86D’s and some RF-84F’s) and derelict aircraft on the air bases were culled (scrapped) in the Nineties. A few more or less complete aircraft and some major components went to museums/collectors, which is very likely the origin of these parts. They have however been exposed to the harsh Danish climate for around 40 years, so I wonder what can be made out of them. Only about five Danish F-84G’s survive, out of more than 250 aircraft used…