The aircraft used to be in the ATA, so really ought to come home to White Waltham. Here, from the Fairchild fan Club website, are some reminiscences from ATA pilot Ann Welch:-
FAIRCHILDS IN ENGLAND DURING WW II
FAIRCHILD ARGUS, we liked having you in ATA.
When ferrying aeroplanes in WW II pilots needed to return to base quickly - so as to shift more aeroplanes. If for or five Spitfires were flown from Southampton to Oxfordshire their pilots would be collected by that marvelously forgiving twin, the Avro Anson. Its only drawback was that 146 turns were needed to hand crank up the undercarriage! The Anson could carry nine passengers but once I squeezed in as fourteenth, all with parachutes and overnight bags. The normally soft flexing of the wing tips gave way to a protesting tremble.
If, however, there was only one aircraft going in a different direction from all the others the pilot had three ways of returning home. 1. By train, slow and even slower through the Midland towns during bombing raids. 2. By hitching a ride in an RAF aeroplane that was going more or less in the right direction, and 3. Being collected by a small ATA 2-3 seater flown by a junior ferry pilot still learning her way around. Early in the war these little taxi aeroplanes were ex-civilian DH Puss and Leopard Moths overpainted in drab camouflage, which mostly carried only a single passenger. It was wasteful in both fuel and time having nothing between these and the Anson, so in 1942 it was a relief when the Fairchild Argus appeared on the scene. It had four seats and was faster. The first we had at Hamble, on England's south coast, was EV771. I do not remember how many Fairchilds ATA had for taxi work, but there must have been one or more at each ferry pool.
The Fairchilds were useful not only for collecting 2 or 3 pilots from one airfield but for rounding up those who had taken aircraft to different Maintenance Units (MUs) or Squadrons. In much of England there were airfields only 10 or so minutes flying time from each other and the Fairchild could do this sort of collecting more quickly and economically than the twin engine Anson. Most airfields in the early 1940s were all grass and with no ATC. A pilot wanting to land only had to assess the traffic, find a gap in it, and land - which a good pilot could do very quickly.
The Fairchild Argus was pleasant and straightforward to fly. As with all the aircraft we flew we had pilots notes on little cards (Anson and Fairchild enclosed) but it was discovered quite soon that while the approach speed stated was fine with only one or two on board it was not enough for four pilots with parachutes and overnight bags. Even in smooth air it was unwise to come in at anything less than 85 mph. This lesson, like many others, had been learnt the hard way when a pilot spun in on the approach killing himself and two passengers, both women ferry pilots. The third woman pilot survived and is alive today.
We liked our Fairchilds. They had comfortable seats, were warm in winter and on hot summer days the two pilots in the front could take off their shirts and have the rare opportunity to sunbathe while flying home.
Many thanks for the Fairchild Fan Club News and your letter. Hope the above piece is okay, but sorry no photos. The enclosed copies of A7A notes are actual size, but the original were on thin card I didn't even have these notes when I flew Air Cobras, but I am still here!