Originally Posted by
GeeRam
Ten years too early, most likely 1999. I think it's first post restoration flight was 2000.
In 1989 it was still in Doug Arnold's Warbirds of GB storage unit at Biggin Hill, after having been moved from his unit at Blackbushe where it had been since he recovered the derelict remains from a kibbutz in Israel in 1983(?)
TFC acquired it in 1991, and then set about restoring it. It was the only Mk.IV flying and had flown with 6 Sqn, the famous Flying Can-Openers during WW2 IIRC.
Really sad to loose it. I've seen several aircraft enter the TFC hangar as restoration projects. Return to flight and then be lost in accidents. Hopefully something can be rescued and returned to flight.