Originally Posted by
Jay Doubleyou
Surprised and delighted to see your post, congratulations! I was so pleased to see my old lady friend GARJC in your post, and find that she is still alive and well after all these years! I first flew G-JC on the 27th of April 1964, 3.5 hours into my abinitio PPL, the previous time being on sisters, GARJH GARNJ and GARJP. There were about eight Colts at Oxford at that time. I made my first solo on 14th of May in GARJG, having to do two circuits as I was eased out by a non-radio Hornet Moth! Those days were as close to the Wright Brothers as to the present day!
I didn't fly often over the next couple of decades, but spent forty satisfying years in ATC, latterly I took to flying again in GAVWN, (alas since destroyed!) a PA28R and a beautiful "Gentleman's Ariel Conveyance "
G-ARNJ is also still current (as is G-ARNE, which I fly) and owned by the Chairman of the Vintage Piper Aircraft Club