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Re: Which bits of Lanc on the Isle of Wight ?
Posted by Julian on Fri Jan 25, 2002 07:40:57 AM
In reply top Re: Which bits of Lanc on the Isle of Wight ? posted by Cees Broere on Fri Jan 25, 2002 04:59:15 AM
You're thinking of Sandown, Cees, that's on the Isle of Wight, I think where some Spits are being rebuilt.
Sandtoft is "up north" on the M180 between Scunthorpe and Doncaster... I just discovered! One lives and learns...
The Lincoln, Lanc and a Tempest were mentioned in Pilot's UK register update this month - restored to the reg I think(G-APRJ, G-BVBP and G-PEST if memory serves), though whether that's an indication that progress will be made with the biggies...?
I remember the pile of Lanc bits outside Doug Arnold's hangar at Biggin about 10 years ago or so...
We don't learn though - we still seem determined to get rid of our less sexy aeronautical history - thinking off-hand there's only one Vanguard and Beverley left and bound to be others where once there were a few, now hardly any. Argosy springs to mind as well.