Twin Pin G-APRS was still being flown by Air Atlantique recently - is it still airworthy?
Sadly, it is not currently airworthy.
I believe an over-enthusiastic test pilot hauled the prototype Prestwick Pioneer off the runway at one of the 1950s Farnborough shows, somehow badly damaging the elevators in the process. A fairly hasty circuit was followed by an uneventful landing!
06 September 1952..........Same afternoon as John Derry & Tony Richards lost their lives in the deH 110 accident..... The tail plane struck a loudspeaker tower as the aircraft took off.