Aircraft Spotted - Clacton on Sea

[comeflymark]

Dad called on the Monday 21st June to see if I could find out what kind of aircraft he had seen flying low over Clacton on Sea that day.

The aircraft was a twin (quote ''about the size of a Spitfire and sounded a bit like a couple of Merlins on it too'') and made 3 passes overhead between about 1400 & 1600hrs.

Any ideas???

[Flightmech]

Just a wild guess and a little bigger than a Spit, but maybe the Blenheim on an afternoon coastal sortie out of Duxford?

[treadigraph]

Unless it's made a rapid recovery - please let it be so - the Blenheim is still being de-bent at Duxford after its prang in 2003.

If it was blue, maybe the TFC Tigercat?

[Kolibear]

Possibly a King Air or a Queen Air, its a twin with a T-tail. I've often mistraken the sound of them for a Merlin.

[Rhodie]

King Air is turbo-prop (completely different sound to straight or radial) and T-tail.

QueenAir is piston twin and conventional tail.

R

[Fernando_Covas]

Just replied to your other thread but could it have been a Mosquito?

[zarniwoop]

Sadly the last flying Mosquito crashed some years ago. Some one did mention the details at the Kemble air show at the weekend, but I think the sun had got to my head by then and can't remember the details.

Z

[sycamore]

Think it may have been a C.402/4. series, as I saw/ heard it in the distance, possibly survey/calib.photo/ oil pollution etc... Syc

[Hilico]

Saw something I took for a 340(?) yesterday 22nd June. King Air today 23rd about 0930-1000L, 3000ft-ish.