Lysander over Wokingham?

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Saturday 22 Sept at approx 15.45 BST a Lysander accompanied by a low-wing WWII aircraft flew WSW over Wokingham. Using SBS I checked for the hex codes of the only two Lysanders on the British register but neither were showing.

I presume that the two aircraft came from Duxford but does anyone know where they might be going and their identities?

Thanks

[chevvron]

Now I ask you, is a Lizzie likely to carry a mode S transponder?

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

You never know, T, there are two on the British Register and hex codes are allocated bu ti appreciate that they may not have the equipment.

[DaveReidUK]

You never know, T, there are two on the British Register and hex codes are allocated but i appreciate that they may not have the equipment.

Don't read too much into the allocation of a hex code.

Tiger Moth G-ANTL was deregistered in 1956 and written off in 1960, but it's got one !

[KING6024]

I think the Shuttleworth Trust at Old Warden is the more likely home of the Lysander,they also have WW2 fighters.
Colin.

[DaveReidUK]

I think the Shuttleworth Trust at Old Warden is the more likely home of the Lysander

Correct. There is also a Lysander at Duxford, but unlikely to have been that one.



(July 2012)

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Interesting. I'm 99.99% certain of the ID, or is there another aeroplane with such bizarre shaped wings and huge wheel spats?

[treadigraph]

Shuttleworth's Lizzie does get out and about - it was flying at Duxford in July - so I'd think it was certainly what you saw, perhaps with their Hurricane.

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Sounds possible in terms of the Hurricane. Many thanks. Hope to find where they went..

[SpringHeeledJack]

Well the Lysander was flying yesterday at Old Warden yesterday if that helps.



SHJ

[Fournierf5]

as can now be revealed . . . it was on the ground at Old Warden at 1628 having kicked off the display at 1600 - you may have to think again!!

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Thanks. Well, it obviously wasn't that one. Does anyone know of any foreign ones it might have been?

[treadigraph]

Sabena Old Timers have one, OO-SOT, which was being rebuilt after a mishap a few years ago. Don't know if it is flying again yet.

[Fournierf5]

. . . or was it just a dream!

[surely not]

Possibly it was a Wilga?

[Stampe]

Stinson Reliant....look at G-BUCH on G-INFO..... large high wing radial engined similar wing plan to a lizzie at a distance.Very pretty aeroplane.Lives at White Waltham I believe.??? VBR Stampe

[chevvron]

The late Doug Arnold used to have one at Blackbushe years ago. Duncan Simpson, then Chief TP at Dunsfold (he did the first flight of the Hawk) used to fly it I think. I remember it using any available bit of grass even the bit north of the runway before the present hangar was built there. I remember this because I was on final for 08 one day and the Lizzie turned in ahead of me and landed on this bit of grass, presumably to save taxiing too far as it lived in one of the old hangars where the car auction building now stands.
If I recollect, this particular one was pranged somewhere near Old Warden.

[treadigraph]

If I recollect, this particular one was pranged somewhere near Old Warden.

I can't remember where the prang was but Darrol Stinton had an engine failure in her and wound up inverted in a filed.

She was rebuilt and Brian Woodford owned her for a while before ownership passed to ARCO at Duxford. I tihnk she is now with Kermit Weekes in Florida.

While with ARCO, she flew alongside the Shuttleworth and Sabena aircraft - magic!