The Dancer TF
For Savoia,
Lovely to see another pic of the black lady that we called 'the Dancer' ... but knowing what a stickler Savoia can be for dates and accuracy, just to confirm my log book tells me that following my purchase of the Dancer from Colin Chapman, I collected her from Hethel on the 22nd January 1983 (not 1984.) I seem to recall she was fitted with the Collins 841 two-axis autopilot ... a neat piece of kit on which you could fly a 'back course' ILS.
The Mike you knew was almost certainly Mike Hamlin with whom I did the purchase negotiations and who flew the Lotus Navajo and the King Air and who later ran his own business of Hamlin Jet.
Hope this fills the odd blank in your records. Warm regards. Dennis Kenyon.