Will
My Dad used to own ASXJ, and I spent many happy hours flying her as a 17 year old just after I got my PPL.
I know she was built as one of a pair by a piano tuner in Lincolnshire and that my Dad brought her from a small strip near Boston in Lincolnshire (where Lincs Aerial spraying used to be based) in the mid eighties.
We went all over the place in her. I remember one memorable flight back from Shoreham to Halton watching the cork and piano wire fuel guage gradually get lower and lower as I flew back into a moderate headwind. I landed with about 1/2gal on board.
On another occasion my Dad was flying back from Duxford to Halton when the venerable 0145A spat out a spark plug around luton. The engine kept running (albeit lumpily) on three cylinders, but would not maintain height. My Dad got back to Halton on a long straight in gently descending final, passing over the boundary hedge with around 100' or so of spare.
Eventually my Dad brought a Jungmann, and after a couple of years of owning both planes, we reluctantly sold ASXJ arund about 1990.
It was a smashing little aeroplane. I really liked the unusual baby lycoming (once we got the hang of starting her!).
cheers
5footface