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Old 1st May 2021, 20:39
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VZ345 turned over while landing at Boscombe Down I believe.

In 1979 Spencer Flack also acquired the late Ormond Haydon-Baillie's Sea Fury G-AGHB and force landed in Germany while ferrying it home to Elstree - no idea if that was engine related or another cause. I recall seeing it looking very battered on a trailer outside his hangar a couple of months later.

Incidentally, I believe G-INVN's crash last year was the first European-operated R-2800 warbird crash due to engine failure in over 40 years, since the movement started to gather pace. The only other airframe loss was Don Bullock's Invader which most certainly wasn't engine related. That's roughly 10 or 11 Corsairs, 3 P-47s, 3 Bearcats, 2 Tigercats, a Hellcat, 4 Invaders, 2 Sea Furies. Pretty good record!
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