Originally Posted by Baron Beeza
I am guessing most of the newer ones were made in Romania and then flown to Bembridge for the remainder of the finishing work...
Correct.
...and I'm thinking we have probably both flown the tip-tank airframe you refer to also... FLU, if memory serves
She climbed like a homesick angel -for an Islander!
Although my favourite was always FWZ... the oldest; MCN in the 200's from memory (269 is the number ringing in my mind?) and reputed to have the highest recorded number of landings of any Islander ever built at that time, c.1996.
EDIT: and now that you mention VW's, was yours the old 1500, blue if memory serves? Mine was the white 1302S, CX 321.