Warbird Information Exchange

Anybody else notice in the 1st October Trade-A-Plane on page 45 there is a 1953 Hawker Sea Fury that was auctioned?? on 18 Oct of this year? Maybe John Terrell can chime in please?

Lynn

It may have been the former Hart Flying Fighters Baghdad Fury in Australia, VH-SHF ex-ZK-SFR. It and a few other machines were up for auction by the Australian federal government.

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Zac in NZ
#avgeek, modelbuilder, photographer, writer. Callsign: "HANDBAG".
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"It's his plane, he spent the money to restore it, he can do with it what he wants. I will never understand what's hard to comprehend about this." - kalamazookid, 20/08/2013
"The more time you spend around warbirds the sooner you learn nothing, is simple." - JohnB, 24/02/22

Is that the one that was seized due to illegal activities?

The Fury has a new owner in Australia, it will return to the air soon

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Give me a Centaurus over a Merlin any day

That is spectacular news. Been a long time since it was airborne

I believe it was for tax reasons, I've never read too much into it. He had quite the collection.

I'm very pleased to hear it will fly again. While I was hoping it would come back to NZ I hope the new owner repaints it into a nice RAN scheme.

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Zac in NZ
#avgeek, modelbuilder, photographer, writer. Callsign: "HANDBAG".
https://linktr.ee/zacyates

"It's his plane, he spent the money to restore it, he can do with it what he wants. I will never understand what's hard to comprehend about this." - kalamazookid, 20/08/2013
"The more time you spend around warbirds the sooner you learn nothing, is simple." - JohnB, 24/02/22

Would love to know what it brought at auction.

Au$900k plus buyers premium of 11%

I received my Classic Wings today and on page 39 there is the ad for this auction...