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G-AKIN is a Miles M.38 Messenger 2A and was built in November 1947 by Miles Aircraft at their Northern Ireland factory, the penultimate Miles-built aircraft (constructor's number 6728). Although the first private owner, in April 1948, was Captain A W B Everard of Fighting fit at fifty-five Ratcliffe Hall, Leicestershire, the Messenger became the property of the Spiller family in August 1949. Based at Sywell from April 1952, she has been there ever since, lovingly looked after and hangared to keep her in tip-top condition.
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Replica ? History unknown !
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Only 34 7W Executives were built. Note able owners included aircraft designer and aviator Howard Hughes and wealthy industrialist John Paul Getty.
At least one example was received by the by LAPE (Líneas Aéreas Postales Españolas) to be used as an airliner marked as EC-AGM until requisitioned by the Spanish Republican Air Force and marked as 30+74.
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G-EBIR was built in 1925, the last of only three DH51's built (the other two were G-EBIM & G-EBIQ). It was the first aircraft to be registered in Kenya as VP-KAA in 1928 and named "Miss Kenya". Donated to The Shuttleworth Trust in 1962 and is the oldest de Havilland designed aircraft still flying !
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Built 1943. USAAF 43-29601
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This Lysander was built in Canada and was used by the RCAF as a target tug serialled 2355. It was bought after the war by Wes Agnew a farmer, former RCAF instructor and collector of aircraft. In 1971 it was purchased by Sir William Roberts for the Strathallan Collection in Scotland. It arrived in the UK in October 1971 and was registered G-AZWT, and work commenced on restoring it. However, it was not until December 1979 that G-AZWT flew again, painted as V9441 a Lysander operated by No.309 (Polish) Squadron. It was grounded in 1986 and was purchased in 1998 by the Shuttleworth Collection. It has been fully restored, repainted and fitted with dummy long range fuel tank and ladder to represent V9367 / MA-B an aircraft of 161 Squadron, flown by Pilot Officer Peter Vaughan-Fowler on operation Apollo during the winter of 1942.
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G-YOTS was built by Aerostar in Bacau, Romania in 1990. She was used by the Soviet DOSAAF training organisation for aerobatic training logging about 150 hours before being pushed to the back of the hangar, where she remained until 2003. She was re-built and imported to the UK that year.
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Built in Cincinnati in 1937 and flew in Florida until her last flight in 1948. She was in storage until the mid eighties when she was imported to the U.K where restoration started. The restorer sold her off and she was placed in storage again for another 18 years. Acquired by Colin Essex in June 2013 who has spent over 1400 hours putting her back to her original condition. Now resident at Old Warden with the owner's 1924 Hawker Cygnet G-EBJI
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Constructed by The Vintage Aviator Limited (TVAL) at Wellington, New Zealand. Pair to ZK-KOZ marked as A2767.
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Built in 1932, G-ACTF was the 9th of 42 Swifts to be built. It was originally registered to Alban Ali as VT-ADO 'The Scarlet Angel' and spent the first part of its life in India. Sold to George Errington who rebuilt it and re-registered the aircraft as G-ACTF on May 24 1934. Purchased by the Shuttleworth Collection in August 1996. During 1998 it was overhauled and restored to its original factory condition and paint scheme. However engine problems have kept it away from the display scene since then, but it should fly again soon.
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