The UK CAA's database GINFO lists about 23 Luton Minor registrations, but only about 4 appear to have a current Permit to Fly.

Never knew that the Luton Aircraft Ltd was based just down the road at the airfield at Barton-Le-Cley before moving to Gerrards Cross.

Apparently Luton airfield became the home of No 5 Ferry Pool, an all-women group of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), who also used Barton-le-Clay as its Relief Training Ground.

A very interesting thread with maps and photos about Barton can be found here.

Barton(Beds) Aerodrome Also contains photos of the Luton Buzzard, which I had never heard of.

There were many stories about Kozubski, I wish I could remember them and I wish even more they were true.

Luton Buzzard at Barton-le-Clay aerodrome. I would presume that is the designer, C.H. Latimer-Needham, in the cockpit in 1936.


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The last scrappers
 

OY-DSK B720, (may have been the one mentioned above as N7201U if re-registered before scrapping) and the 1-11 was G-AYUW which think ended up going to Hatfield for an emergency excercise as just the fuselage.

Luton Buzzard II
 

Now that is a weird looking aircraft. The mark 2 had an enclosed cockpit and was made in 1937. It must have had a small propeller seeing that it is mounted behind the cockpit.

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These snaps of obscure ultra-lights stirred a few grains of sawdust in the caverns of my mind. Can anybody recall the prang that the somewhat abrasive Luton SATCO Brimacombe Senior suffered flying a homebuilt at Luton in the sixties and the type of aircraft involved?

G-AFZE Heath Parasol 1 April 1966. As the ATCO who was sat in the seat at the time said to me "I wasn't sure whether to press the crash alarms or start a letter 'Dear Sir, I wish to apply for the vacant position of . . . . .'" :)

Got a pic somewhere . . . .

BTW It's Brimecombe.

There - I knew someone would know fifty years after the event. Wonderful thing this thread!

photo of the prang here. ( photo can be clicked on the expand it)
http://www.airphotographicinternatio...asolluton-1966

So were was that photo taken?

The photo I had in mind is on the 'net but copyrighted.

If you look here AVIATION GOLDEN OLDIES - LUTON at the bottom, right, you can see the aircraft with Brimecombe Junior seated in it and Brimecombe Senior standing behind.

LTNman

The pic is taken up against the fence on he south side of the airfield where the crash occurred although I would think the wreckage has been moved to one of the EP gates prior to recovery onto the airfield.

It was at Old Warden in 1982 with a new owner but I presume it ended up in a skip when he new owner died.

I asked the copyright owner of that website a year or so ago whether I could reproduce some of his photos here with credits to him. The answer was a resounding no. It was the only time I have been refused as everyone else has been delighted to share their photos but the owner said he put a monetary value on his photos. I got the impression that he seemed upset that I had even asked.

He has taken some wonderful photos so his website is worth a look but just don't copy any of them!

Rule Britannia!

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Great photos Buster. You just can't beat a prop airliner.

G-AOVF passed over Luton during its last ever flight from Southend to Cosford during May 1984. I was sat in a garden in the north Luton area as it passed overhead on track to DTY wheels down. It might be a fading memory, but I also thought that it was on three engines?

More props!

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Those were the days when cargo operators using Britannia's seemed to be two a penny but I think the reality was that it was spread over a few years. Was the Invicta one cargo or passenger?

Wishing all PPRuNer's who follow this thread a Merry Christmas but does anyone know this imposter?
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Luton News

Invicta the passenger airline closed down at the end of October 1975. The only Britannia they used was G-AOVT, leased from Monarch for just 3 months late 1974-75. Not sure if it was actually used for passenger work or not. The aircraft is of course the one displayed at Duxford in Monarch colours. Their other Britannias G-AOVF and G-ANCF were leased from IAS after the passenger business ceased, and were used purely for cargo work until Oct 1981 when the airline finally closed down.

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G-AOVF 12/4/80