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IN BRIEF
PRESERVATION Canadian Spitfi re Airborne BEECH TURBO BARON 56TC FACh 471 is to

be restored by Chile’s Museo Aeronáutico of
Los Cerrillos for its collection. The aircraft has
been in storage at its facilities since 2006. It
originally served with Chile’s Directorate for
Civil Aviation (DGAC) from 1968 before being
sold into private hands in the 1980s. It will be
repainted into DGAC colours. Álvaro Romero
A former Spanish Air Force DASSAULT
MIRAGE F1M C.14-14/14-08 has been given a
special paint scheme at the Academia Básica
del Aire in León, Spain, to mark the unit’s
25th anniversary. The former Ala 14 ghter is
currently used as an instructional airframe.
As well as tail n art, it also has the dates
‘1992-2017’ stencilled onto the fuselage.
Roberto Yánˇez
Spit re IX TE924 is airworthy again after a lengthy restoration. Peter Handley-VWOV
A CESSNA 310J T-12, previously on display in
Having been rescued from a South African Vintage Wings of Canada, after initial work Morón, near Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been
scrapyard in the 1990s, this Canadian-built by the Comox Air Force Museum in British donated to the country’s Flight Personnel and
Supermarine Spit re IX, TE924, recently Columbia. It represents MK304 ‘Y2-K’, the Aeronautical Technicians Training Centre for
made its rst post-restoration ight from aircraft own by RCAF 442 Sqn’s Flt Lt Arnold use as an instructional airframe. The Cessna
Gatineau, Quebec in the hands of John Roseland, who completed 117 Spit re ights, originally ew as N3160L before operating in
Aitken. The ghter has been restored by around half of them in Y2-K. Argentina as LV-PDQ and LV-IOI. Esteban Brea

Australian Amphibian Advances

Steady progress is being made on the in the cockpit, such as the control column being reskinned, and volunteers have been
restoration of Consolidated PBY5-A and rudder pedals. The items will be cleaning the wing centre section prior to
Catalina 48412 by the Rathmines Catalina cleaned, replaced or repaired as necessary. restoration.
Memorial Park Association, located near The team is also working on the rear The port engine is currently in Edinburgh,
Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, fuselage around the blister compartment. South Australia, where it is being worked on
Australia. A set of blister rotating sections has been by RAAF personnel. The Rathmines group
The complete nosewheel assembly, acquired on loan to use as a template in is still looking for one pilot’s seat, a seat
including the gear doors, has been removed, creating authentic looking versions for the for the engineer’s position and corrugated
along with most of the internal components project. The tail section and elevators are walkway components for the rear hull.

Hurricane

Returns to

the Sky

A rare Hawker Hurricane I, P2902, recently
made its debut at Duxford’s Flying Legends
Airshow, 77 years after it crash-landed on
a French beach. The aircraft returned to
the sky on June 19, and after several more
successful test ights appeared at the
famed Duxford show.
Having been recovered and brought to
the UK for rebuilding the 1939-built ghter Stu Goldspink taking off in Hawker Hurricane I P2902 from Elmsett, Suffolk on July 3. Darren Harbar
was registered G-ROBT by then owner Aircraft Restorations in 2016. of British forces from northern France in
Rick Roberts on September 19, 1994 Originally allocated to 245 Sqn it ew 1940, and was shot down on May 31 while
and underwent lengthy work with Hawker patrols over Dunkirk and the Channel being own by 19-year-old Plt Off Kenneth
Restoration before being acquired by Anglia during Operation Dynamo – the evacuation ‘Mac’ McGlashan.

Spitfi re for Arizona’s Pima Museum

A Supermarine Spit re XIVe has gone Museum of Science and Industry from Aeroplane and Armament Experimental
on display in Tucson, Arizona. The 1995 until 2014. It rst ew in April 1944 Establishment at Boscombe Down,
ghter, MT847, is well known to British and operated with maintenance units, Wiltshire, prior to retirement in 1952.
enthusiasts, having been at Manchester’s operational conversion units and the With thanks to Meghan Marum

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