Most of my hours were flown in the Hawarden Aero Club aircraft, particularly G-BARS, now in the colours of the Portuguese Air Force. Sadly I never took any photos of it and can't find any on line. My apologies then for including an accurate but synthetic FS repaint.
I, too used to fly G-BARS out of Hawarden for a year or two in the very early '80s. We started to fly her because our own G-BCSL needed at lot of work soon after we bought her and just after we'd checked out! So we drove down the road to Chester to keep our Chippy currency!
Do you remember 'Black Jake' who ran the place back then? There were "do not" signs everywhere in the clubroom, and even a diagram to show us how he wanted cheques to be written-out! Needless to say, after he'd gone home at 5pm (he was a clock-watcher!) I'm told (ahem!) great fun flying down taxyways, around and over hangars etc was had! And low level 'straffing missions' at zero feet down the Dee Estuary, too!
All 'allegedly', of course.
