Baldeagle wrote:
I'm 99% sure that this is incorrect info. Although it is on the internet, so.....
When I worked for Kermit he told me that he had traded the Camel and Triplane to Tony Bianchi, and that the Triplane was so rough that Tony didn't want to fly it, so it ended up hanging up somewhere, mall or shopping center, never to fly again.
As a general observation, this is why quoting and using serial numbers and registrations is the only reliable way of tracking this kind of thing!
My 19th Edition of Ken Ellis'
Wrecks and Relics (2004 date info) lists four Dr.1s in the UK, none with a quoted ex-UK history, except G-AGTM, previously G-ATJM, EI-APY and N78001 at a private strip in Berkshire. W&R is very good at covering mallrats and replicas, so it's either one of the four without history listed, or it aint' there.
(The others are one at Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Hawkings, only id being the non-flying BAPC.36;
scale replica BAPC.88 at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton; and Breighton's Real aeroplane Co's G-BVGZ - a Viv Bellamy (UK) built replica, PFA 238-12654.)
(Even less likely is the Fokker Robin Bowes was sadly killed in - G-BEFR, which was another Viv Bellamy example, I find on checking.)
The Personal Plane Services (Bianchi) Camel is listed as having gone to Compton Abbas, Dorset, and is G-BPOB painted as 'B2458'. According to the CAA listing, it's a Tallmantz built replica, serial TM-10, so that fits, and is still Bianchi aviation Film services owned.
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?c ... gmark=BPOBFokker G-ATJM seems to have been German built, and used in
The Blue Max and
Flyboys, but not American built and no mention of use in
Waldo, and now GXXXXXn [EDIT: French]-based - so that's a red herring, not a red Fokker, IMHO.
:Head scratch:
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