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Old 5th Feb 2012, 19:18
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atb1943
 
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Remember it? I'll take the memories of it to my grave. I bought the beast in 1967 for £700 at Shackletons (Sywell) in 1967 and flew it to Sharjah, not without tribulations, and after flying it around the Trucial Oman (UAE) for a while persuaded an RAF Twin Pin pilot that he wanted to fly it to South Africa, which he did with a colleague to navigate. Not without tribulations.

It was sold in Durban to a young farmer who was going to fly it to a hill farm and use it to commute to Durban. I have always thought that if he got it on the ground at the hill farm it would never leave it again, and a good thing too.
This brought to mind that I was sure I had seen a Prentice in the SAA hangar at Jan Smuts (as it was called then) in 1992 when I was down there for Aviation Africa. Lo and behold:



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