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One of the Tiger Club Turb team aircraft is home-built, and therefore is privately owned and not on the TC hire fleet
I checked ginfo, all four (i think they only have four) of them are owed by the tiger club.
Have alook at the last display pilot listed here ("the team") and his mount G-BUKH:
Turb Team Home
With two exceptions, all the Rollason built Turbs that survive have registrations that end in 'Z - one exception being G-AJCP that bears the initials of it's first owner, at one time President of the (then) PFA.
I've always had a liking for the Turb ever since I first saw G-ARNZ when it was privately owned at Portsmouth airport in 1966/7, fitted with a full canopy. The owner used to lift the tailskid on to his shoulder and wheelbarrow it out of the hangar, like a toy, jump in and putter off to who knows where; marvellous. Maybe one day I'll get to fly 'NZ, that would be neat. Must pop down to Headcorn.
GtE: I wouldn't dispute your position on this; I certainly don't have a source reference to support my understanding. It's an intriguing thought that some brave soul with sufficient entrepreneurial spirit might be able to acquire and hire out half-a-dozen or more VP1s / Luton Minors / Turbs / Taylor Monos / Nippers etc for less than the capital cost of, say, one Ikarus or Eurostar!
