Sorry if I forgot some important people. Yes, Mike Searle and Tim Vaughn, together with the aforementioned Stephan Brod, formed SBV Aero Services. Mike flew with me in an Aztec, to help diagnose some engine trouble. Didn’t he come to grief in Spencer’s Sea Fury?
Then there were Pat and Rudi, on the other side of the hangar who formed Light Aircraft Services.
Ive just remembered that it was Tom Kilcoyne who was the hangar/airfield manager, not “John”. I’ll correct my previous post.