Air Cadet Tiger Moth in Hounslow?
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Air Cadet Tiger Moth in Hounslow?
Does anyone have any recollections, details or best of all pictures of a Tiger Moth that stood on the site of 86 Sqn Heston and Isleworth Air Cadets when they were based behind Hounslow East tube station in the 1960s? 86 moved to a new site in the early 1970s and the Tiger Moth was broken up at that point I believe.
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This sounds like it:
Edit: credit above info to Malcolm Fillmore/Air Britain DH-82 Production List.
Also a few pics as she is now in the AB photo library
G-AHOO was a previously unused registration nestling amidst a batch of Vikings ordered by MoS for BEA...
86150 Toc as EM967 at 33 MU Lyneham 17.6.43. To 21 EFTS Booker 5.7.43. Crashed 2.10.43; to Lundy & Atlantic Coast for repairs 13.10.43; to 20 MU Aston Down 20.10.43. To Halton Station Flight 30.12.48. Converted to instructional airframe 6940M 7.12.51 and issued to 86[F] [Heston & Isleworth] ATC Squadron, Vicarage Farm Road, Hounslow. Soc .58. Moved with ATC unit to a hut adjacent to Hounslow East underground station [westbound platform]. Remains extant [10.69]. Purchased by Gary Bisshopp .78 as basket-case for rebuild. Regd GAHOO 6.6.85 to Garry William Bisshopp, Northop Hall, Mold, Clwyd; (regd with c/n 86149; amended to 86150 11.10.10) Regd 1.7.97 to Jeffrey Thomas Milsom & Anthony David Milsom, Marlborough/Crediton. Rebuild completed by Newbury Aeroplane Co, Hungerford; reflown Little Farm, Hamstead Marshall 10.8.00. CofA issued 11.8.00; based Little Farm, Hamstead Marshall. Regd 14.5.12 (solely) to Jeffrey Thomas Milsom, Pewsey; based France Farm, Rushall. CofA replaced by PtoF 26.7.12. Currently regd. Note: Quoted as being with 22 EFTS Cambridge; coded “6” at sometime.
Also a few pics as she is now in the AB photo library
G-AHOO was a previously unused registration nestling amidst a batch of Vikings ordered by MoS for BEA...
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Many thanks.... I think was in a very poor state late 60s and I remember seeing the fuel tank dumped by the railway line after 86 Sqn moved premises to the Heston TA Centre and parts of a seat survived in an Air Cadet go kart! Sounds like it could still be flying though?
