Interesting coincidence, as there was just a bit in our local paper about an avaiation museum run by a local restorer of planes.
He has an excellent collection, including what they are pretty sure is the only flyable De Havolind Mosquito.
And he’s selling them all. Says his business has been supporting the museum for years, and due to some financial reversals he just can’t keep doing it.
He’s already sold his B-17 and a small German fighter.
He owns at least 50 planes from WWI and WWII, some here and others all over the world, and everything’s for sale.
My secondary school was about four miles off the end of hatfield airfield and they kept a Mossie flying. Our maths teacher used to pause, chalk in hand, when he heard those twin merlins. He had been a draftsman and his claim to fame was he designed the clip so that Lanc pilots could have a flask of warm tea over Berlin.
I reminded also that parts of Saving Private Ryan was filmed on the runway, they built a French village. My brother lives not far off and the WW2 planes passed very low over his house, they were even give a phone number to ring if it got too much!
Yes, that was RR299, a T3 dual trainer which they kept for many years and it could often be seen flying around. This aircraft crashed at an air display some years ago.
