I am probably showing my age, but LEC started with a Dark Blue Avro Anson 19. I came across them when a lady pilot on the way home from a sales demostration tour of Africa hit a marker on the ramp in Gibraltar and punched a hole in the "wooden" tailplane. The earlier Anson 19's did have wood wings and tail. The RAF ones were metal.
I helped a National Service cabinet maker repair it overnight. We also rebuilt the tailwheel so that it would caster and did an engine inspection. At the time there was an Anson on the Station Flight so we had the parts and no how other than the wood which fortunatly the National Service guy gave us.
Many years later I landed at Bognor to attend a fly-in picnic which I believe was given by the Purley's?? The runway was grass and had a curve in it, I believe.
Speedbird 48.