FlyPast 08.2018

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In the next issue of FlyPast we shine our Spotlight on the fearsome Messerschmitt Bf 109. We scrutinise

the various incarnations of the famous Luftwaffe fi ghter, which proved a worthy adversary to most of

its contemporaries in World War Two. The September issue will be in UK shops on August 1 or see page

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FINALS BEECH 18

130 FLYPAST August 2018

Nick Houghton’s Beechcraft

18-3TM Expeditor 1164 Good

Vibrations was among the

star attractions at a night

photography shoot at

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, on

May 5. The aircraft fl ew with

the RCAF from 1952 until

entering civil hands as C-FQPD

in 1971. It was extensively

restored at Duxford after being

brought to the UK, and fl ew

again as G-BKGL. The Beech

was owned for many years by

Tim Darrah and operated by

Radial Revelation, before being

acquired by Nick. JAMIE EWAN