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PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:06 am 
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Spotted on Facebook, the Dakota Territory Museum F8F Bearcat has flown again and flown over 20 hours after her initial test flights were interrupted by the engine making metal back in 2019!


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 7:19 am 
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Also spotted on Facebook- The Warbird Heritage Foundation's FG-1D flew for the first time in almost 50 years yesterday....


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:48 am 
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So who is doing the T-6/SNJ/Harvard list? pop2 (Not me BTW)


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 7:31 pm 
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Also spotted on Facebook- The Warbird Heritage Foundation's FG-1D flew for the first time in almost 50 years yesterday....


Just added! I'm really looking forward to the video and photos from the first flight.

Adding to the recent news - the F8F-1 Bearcat, N4752Y, which was restored by Ezell Aviation for Texas Flying Legends, and which just recently flew again for the first time since its one flight in 2019, is now listed in FAA documents as having been sold to ECHO MATRIX LLC, which is the name that Steuart Walton's warbirds are registered to, based in Bentonville, Arkansas.


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JohnTerrell wrote:

Adding to the recent news - the F8F-1 Bearcat, N4752Y, which was restored by Ezell Aviation for Texas Flying Legends, and which just recently flew again for the first time since its one flight in 2019, is now listed in FAA documents as having been sold to ECHO MATRIX LLC, which is the name that Steuart Walton's warbirds are registered to, based in Bentonville, Arkansas.



Good spot, John...

But *groan* will this Bearcat ever be seen north of the Mason-Dixon line? :(

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:22 am 
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Bearcat N4752Y arrived at Bentonville, Arkansas for its new owner, Steuart Walton, this past week (March 16th I believe). There are some videos and a photo posted to pilot Cristian Bolton's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cristianboltonracing

I have updated the B-25 list to reflect the paint scheme/name change of Yankee Air Museum's B-25D, which is now "Rosie's Reply".

I have also updated the Wildcat list to reflect the recent sale of FM-2 N909WJ, which will soon be exported/shipped to a new owner in Germany.


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:44 pm 
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Newly added to the flyers list is Spitfire Mk.IX MH415 (G-AVDJ), which had its first flight today at Sywell Aerodrome in the UK. This is the ex-Connie Edwards Spitfire, which he had acquired following the end of the making of the movie, "Battle of Britain"; having accepted it, along with the numerous Buchons, as payment for his many hours of flying for the filmmakers. From 1973 until 2014 it was stored away until when sold to a new owner in Australia. In early 2016 it was sent to Vintage Fighter Restorations in Scone, Australia, where the restoration commenced. At the time it was sold, it was considered perhaps the most complete and original of any unrestored surviving Spitfire and with very little in the way of any corrosion. In early 2020, the restoration was all but completed at Scone when the aircraft was shipped to the UK for final completion at Air Leasing. The plan was to have the aircraft take part in some of the UK airshows last year, but of course COVID shut everything down. With Air Leasing, the Spitfire was also repainted in more authentic colors (the right spec colors), and is finished in the markings of 222 Squadron, in which it served from October 1943 until the start of '44, during which time it regularly took part in missions/fighter sweeps over Europe. It is one of the most completely original Spitfires now flying. I am not sure who the current owner of the aircraft is (there is some indication it may have been sold). It is registered as chartered to Air Leasing.

This is one of the photos posted to the Ultimate Warbird Flights Facebook page last October. https://www.facebook.com/UltimateWarbirdFlights/

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Fury/Sea Fury VH-SFW flew on 7 April after an engine change according to a Facebook posting.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 12:00 pm 
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That must have been a repost of old news from April 2016. That Hawker Fury, which was formerly registered as VH-SFW, moved to England a few months later, in the summer of 2016, and flies there as G-CBEL.


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That must have been a repost of old news from April 2016. That Hawker Fury, which was formerly registered as VH-SFW, moved to England a few months later, in the summer of 2016, and flies there as G-CBEL.
Never trust the internet! :lol:


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I've had a couple individuals contact me to let me know this morning that the UK-based Navy Wings Sea Fury T.20, G-RNHF, was involved in a forced landing in a field near RNAS Yeovilton after its Centaurus engine was reportedly running rough. The crew is reported to be okay. The aircraft is quite significantly damaged, with the engine/QEC and wings separated from the fuselage and with the fuselage resting upside down.


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Don't forget that Spitfire TB252 has changed country. Fingers crossed that the P-40E for Italy is able to display at the Ardmore show 6th June (it was a quiet possible for Omaka at Easter, but still hasn't flown).


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Thank you for the reminder, Errol!

I've updated the Spitfire list quite a bit, to reflect all of those which had been airworthy up until recently, but currently are not, for various reasons. I've also updated all of the lists to remove those belonging to the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum (at least for the time being).


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I saw a video of the PBY "Miss Pick Up" back flying today.

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Yeah, that PBY was one of the stars of this past weekend's Shuttleworth airshow event at Old Warden.


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