Little Rissington / Devonair

[ATR43]

Hi all

Some years ago I flew into Little Rissington by prior arrangement with Devonair who were resident in one of the hangars there and had a thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours.

There was a wide variety of aircraft appeared to be based there in the hangar, not least five NAC Freelance airframes as well as some other interesting types including a couple of Stearman's etc.

I can no longer find any reference on the web to Devonair, does anyone know what happened to the aircraft and the NAC fuselages

Many thanks

[chevvron]

I understand that Grob Vigilants were being re-furbished there but who by I don't know.
As for the Freelances, I thought they were at Coventry.

[N707ZS]

Did Devonair move to Kemble?

[Buster the Bear]

I may have got this wrong, but Devonair were booted out of LR during 2012. Airframes were then stored outside off airfield. VP955 & G-ARJB remains at a recycling yard near Swindon. G-DDCD is now with SYAM Doncaster.

[horatio_b]

Photo of VP955 is on the demobbed website:

http://www.demobbed.org.uk/images/v/vp955.jpg

[chevvron]

Hi all

Some years ago I flew into Little Rissington by prior arrangement with Devonair who were resident in one of the hangars there and had a thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours.

There was a wide variety of aircraft appeared to be based there in the hangar, not least five NAC Freelance airframes as well as some other interesting types including a couple of Stearman's etc.

I can no longer find any reference on the web to Devonair, does anyone know what happened to the aircraft and the NAC fuselages

Many thanks
Only contact I have is 0400 264520 but if there's gliding in progress (weekends and PH plus occasionally week long courses), it'll be winch launched so don't expect to get a visit 'cos 2 FTS don't like mixing glding and powered.
A/G frequency is 120.775 (25kHz)