Just looking the UK-built WAR replicas - the Corsair looks to have not been finished as it was cancelled by the CAA - owner has been a fairly prolific builder I think, I'm sure there were several homebuilt projects completed by him. As I thought, it appeared in the projects tent at the PFA at Cranfield in a fairly advanced state.
There was just one Sea Fury which flew and sadly suffered a fatal crash at a fly in with a new owner at the helm - accident report leads me to draw a conclusion but does not actually say it, so I won't.
We had one P-47 which looks to have been built in the US and imported - it's now been with drawn from use it seems. Apparently I did catch up with it at another PFA event at Wroughton in 1993 - well, it was there and I was there so I imagine we encountered each other! Looked nice in the pics!
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These seem a bit ambitious...
They do indeed!
Back in the 70s I noticed a pair of wings outside somebody's house near Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey. These apparently had come from a Miles Gemini twin and were intended as the basis of a scale Mosquito replica; sad to say the project didn't seem to progress all that far. We also had a Sturgeonair Mustang replica completed near me, lovely piece of work which eventually passed to a new owner who died in it performing aerobatics at an airshow.
Sorry, thread drift...