Glad to read that!
Now that it can fly from Old Warden (I understand), as you say, the tailskid can be reinstated. When it was restored, it flew from Hatfield which had a paved runway and taxi-ways, so a wheel was essential.
Many's the time I saw it taxi past the office window in 1987-92 and wondered that the original designer placed so little value in forward vision when the design mission involved so many landings/take-offs at racecourses and other non-aerodromes!
In the air, with the wheels up however . . . .