8 FLYPAST December 2018
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NEWS THE LATEST IN AVIATION HERITAGE
Mosquito roars into life at East Kirkby
Tony Agar’s de Havilland Mosquito
NF.11 HJ711 ran an engine in public
for the fi rst time on September
22 at East Kirkby’s Lincolnshire
Aviation Heritage Centre.
The attraction was hosting an
event to mark its 30th anniversary
and included two ‘runs’ by fellow
resident, Avro Lancaster NX611 Just
Jane. Just four days earlier the
team had started the Mosquito’s
port engine for the fi rst time since
the start of the restoration.
It is seven decades since East
Kirkby last reverberated to the
sound of the type and it is the fi rst
time a Mosquito has been heard in
the UK since 1995. The milestone
also marks the start of the next
chapter in the bid to return the
machine to ground-running status.
De Havilland Mosquito NF.11 HJ711 running its port engine on September 22. JAMIE EWAN http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk JAMIE EWANAlbatros D.Va reproduction ‘D.2263’
has joined the World War I Aviation
Heritage Trust, and is to be based at
Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome in
Maldon, Essex.
The airworthy machine was made by
The Vintage Aviator in New Zealand.
Now owned by Oliver Wulff, it arrived at
Old Warden, Bedfordshire on September
19 and has been re-assembled by the
Trust’s engineering team. The Albatros
is painted in a striking black livery with
a distinctive ‘edelweiss’ motif on the
side of the fuselage. It will remain at
Old Warden until the fl ight certifi cation
process is complete.
It represents the fi ghter fl own by Oblt
Otto Kissenberth who commanded Jasta
23 and scored 20 victories. His fl ying
career was ended when he crashed a
captured Sopwith Camel at the end of
May 1918. He died in a mountaineering
accident the following year.
The Trust already operates
Oliver’s Royal Aircraft Factory BE.2e
reproduction and is expecting to
receive two more machines within the
next year – an SE.5a and a Fokker D.VII.
A fundraising drive is under way to
create more hangarage at Stow Maries.
If successful, it could lead to even
more Great War-type aircraft operating
from the Essex strip.
http://www.ww1aviationheritagetrust.co.uk
DARREN HARBARAlbatros reproduction
destined for Stow Maries
Albatros D.Va ‘D.2263’ is assembled at Old
Warden in September. DARREN HARBAR
De Havilland Venom FB.50 ‘WR470’
has arrived at its new home,
Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire. It
had previously been at Coventry,
in Warwickshire.
The former Swiss Air Force jet is
currently being rebuilt to ground
running condition – the Cold War Jets
team hopes to have completed the
work by Christmas, and the Venom
should be ready for Bruntingthorpe’s
fi rst open day in 2019.Panavia Tornado GR.1P ZA
(also see FlyPost) is likely to have
left the aerodrome by the time
this issue is published. The former
trials jet is being transported to
the Wales Aerospace Centre at St
Athan in Glamorgan. The Panavia
Tornado Preservation Group has
been offered free undercover
storage at the Welsh attraction,
facilitating its bid to make the
aircraft taxiable. MAX WALDRONVenom progress at
Bruntingthorpe
De Havilland Venom FB.50 ‘WR470’ at Bruntingthorpe recently. MAX WALDRONA full-scale replica of a twin-engined Fokker
G.I has been put on display at Soesterberg’s
National Military Museum in the Netherlands.
Built in 1985, it represents ‘330’, which shot
down two German aircraft in May 1940 before
making a successful belly landing. The model
will be joined by a Fokker C.X replica later
this year. ROGER SOUPARTMcDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom 66-
has been refurbished at the Bowling Green
Aviation Heritage Park in Kentucky. The
jet – which is on loan from Dayton, Ohio’s
National Museum of the USAF – is painted in
the colours it wore when fl own by Brig Gen
Edward ‘Dan’ Cherry in the Vietnam War.
TONY SACKETOS