An elderly pilot back in the 70s ferried a Tomahawk from the USA to Manchester for The Manchester School of Flying(MSF)
I never got to speak to him but some people in here might have done.
I did do Manchester to Dublin Via IOM years back with P1FEL in a Cherokee and A.N Other following.The CFI waved us off with the encouraging words that engines don't know they are over water do they.