Staverton 20-Jan-22 + Photo's

[gtf4j2m]

A few from Staverton, the weather was sunny most of the day.

G-ZDEA .. Diamond DA42 Twin Star
N78MC .. Cirrus SR22 (4754)
N228UK .. Cirrus SR22T (2371)

EI-VII ..  Van's RV-7
G-BOPC /EECY ..  PA28 Cherokee
G-BSGT ..  Cessna T210N
G-BVHC ..  Grob G115D Heron
G-GFRA ..  PA28RT Arrow
G-HEMN ..  EC135T
G-HIVE ..  Cessna F150M
G-IVIP ..  Agusta A109E
G-LENZ /VGAG ..  Cirrus SR20
G-MAXI ..  PA34 Seneca
G-OARA ..  PA28R Arrow
G-OVMC ..  Cessna F152
N902SR ..  Cirrus SR22

A pair of Norman Freelance fuselages arrived by road, no marks and in plain primer. I don't know i/d's or where they came from


EI-VII Van's RV-7 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr


G-BSGT Cessna T210N by Graham Taylor, on Flickr


G-BVHC Grob G115D Heron by Graham Taylor, on Flickr


G-GFRA PA28RT Arrow by Graham Taylor, on Flickr


G-HIVE Cessna F150M by Graham Taylor, on Flickr


G-PCIZ PC-12/47E by Graham Taylor, on Flickr


N78MC Cirrus SR22 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr


N78MC Cirrus SR22 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr


N228UK Cirrus SR22T by Graham Taylor, on Flickr


Norman AC-1 Freelance by Graham Taylor, on Flickr


Graham
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[graham]

If PlaneBase is correct, then only seven were built, five of which it says are "incomplete and last known as stored at Little Rissington".

[gtf4j2m]

Jan 22, 2022 13:53:13 GMT graham said:

If PlaneBase is correct, then only seven were built, five of which it says are "incomplete and last known as stored at Little Rissington".

Thanks Graham. These 2 had not been finished and probably never registered. I will be interested to see what happens to them.

Graham

[graham]

I've only seen two of the seven, one (G-NACI) when it was registered as G-AXFB at Biggin Hill way back in 1969 and the other G-NACA at Oaksey in 2013. Would be great if your two were completed and stayed relatively locally

[davebasing]

Didn’t graph G-AXFB at Biggin in 69 but did so at the Business & Light Aircraft show at Cranfield in July 69, then as a Britten Norman BN3 Nymph.
crn4 by dave tompkins, on Flickr

A few others from that Cranfield show. Apologies but over half a century of storage has not been too kind to the quality of theses slides.

G-APNJ was the first Cessna 310 to grace the UK register. A gear collapse at Blackbushe in March 73 ended its flying career but it became an instructional frame at Northbrook College in Shoreham before going on to be displayed at the Newark Museum. The Skyvan never made it to Salvador, going instead to Alaska as N123PA where it had a very short life before being written off there in October 1970 in a forced landing due to fuel contamination. Islander D-IAWD is still current in the States as N881GL; The Beech 99 demonstrator now hauls freight with Ameriflight (I had an interesting Beech 99 right seat flight back in 1983 where we were icing up rather badly but managed to make it into Luton); Cessna 337 N85894 went to Germany and then back to the States where it is still current as N337RC. T210 N2245R became F-BRUM while the 402 N4571Q went to Morocco, then France and finally ended up derelict in Sao Tome as S9-TAK. G-AXEK (which did demo flights with Dan Air) was broken up the States as N103SC.

69-as by dave tompkins, on Flickr
69-ar by dave tompkins, on Flickr
crn2 by dave tompkins, on Flickr
69-at by dave tompkins, on Flickr
crn6 by dave tompkins, on Flickr
crn5 by dave tompkins, on Flickr
crn3 by dave tompkins, on Flickr
crn1 by dave tompkins, on Flickr

[lordevanelpuss]

Jan 22, 2022 14:49:47 GMT graham said:

I've only seen two of the seven, one (G-NACI) when it was registered as G-AXFB at Biggin Hill way back in 1969 and the other G-NACA at Oaksey in 2013. Would be great if your two were completed and stayed relatively locally

Wasn't G-NACI the one that spent some time at Popham in the 2010s?