Texas Avro Anson, 1988

[Baldeagle]

This Avro Anson was derelict in Fabens, Texas in 1988, anybody know what happened to it?





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[Mark_Pilkington]

As of 2006 it was stored in a Hangar in Denton with the rest at Gainsville Texas according to the son of the owner in this WIX post at the time?

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=64667

Hello all,
This is indeed an Anson Mk 19 belonging to my Dad. We rescued her from the origonal Texas Air Museum in the late '90's. the rest of the plane is in Gainsville Texas where my dad is based and has his DC-3 operation. On a side note if you are up there, you will now find "Fat Annie", the only remaining operational Carvair ATL-98 that has joined the collection of Convairs and DC-3s to try to make a living hauling freight!The Anson actually is reasonably siginificant in that it was one of the last 6 that performed the formation flyby over London when the type was retired. this plane came to the US in the 70's and was found derelict by TAM late '80's. It is completely origonal with all seats and interior etc, and cheetah engines. To our knowledge there are no other Ansons flying or otherwise in the US. BTW Brian, did not find this till i had responded you!.

Regards

Mark Pilkington

[Warbird Kid]

You think Vintage Wings of Canada would be interested in something like this?

[WallyB]

You think Vintage Wings of Canada would be interested in something like this?

It's Mk 19 which the Canadians did not use.
Almost certainly N5054 (FAA tail number, not RAF serial), but there the mystery deepens. The FAA give the manufacturer's serial as 293483 but this is VL349 n the Norfolk UK museum and it's in much better shape .

This was taken in 1977

(jinxx1/Desrt_Wings)

[rcaf_100]

You think Vintage Wings of Canada would be interested in something like this?

It's Mk 19 which the Canadians did not use.

It might be worthwhile to use the wings with a Mk I/II fuselage (like ZK-RRA) to create an airworthy Anson without having to worry about the wooden wings.

[RMAllnutt]

You think Vintage Wings of Canada would be interested in something like this?

Vintage Wings only operate single engined aircraft, and this has been an unwritten policy for the collection ever since I can remember. Of course, that may change one day, but I don't suspect it will be anytime soon. It all comes down to operating costs.

Cheers,
Richard

[bdk]

I just love that Texas moonscape in the opening photo!

[Dave Lindauer]

bdk - It's about 10 miles from being a Mexican moonscape!

[The Inspector]

bdk - It's about 10 miles from being a Mexican moonscape!

It looks like the location where the trailer fight between Daryl Hannah and Umma Thermon in 'Kill Bill Vol. 1' took place.

[Clifford Bossie]

bdk - It's about 10 miles from being a Mexican moonscape!

It looks like the location where the trailer fight between Daryl Hannah and Umma Thermon in 'Kill Bill Vol. 1' took place.

Pats of "Lone Wolf McQuade" were filmed at Fabens (as well as West Texas Airport) and "Courage Under Fire" was filmed just a few miles to the North.

I had almost forgotten about the Anson and wish I could find the original negatives of the photos I took in the '70s (when I was a kid!). All I have is the print I scanned for my website, the one that is posted above by Wally. The orginals were taken with a Kodak Instamatic.

[Obergrafeter]

Wasn't the Anson in Georgetown (Tx) for a little while?

[Steve T]

Interesting idea about combining the wings of this Annie with a Canadian/British earlier model fuselage in the manner of the superb Reid Mk.I in New Zealand. And I know just the Annie: languishing on the ground since about 1999 has been C-FHOT/12417, plywood-fuselage Canadian Mk.VP, part of the CWH collection since 1980 and occasionally the only flying Anson anywhere. A metal wing transplant--if the mods could be certified--might be just the ticket to put the Mk.V back in the air...the wooden wing from HOT could then go onto one of the static projects in various museums...

S.

[soko121]

Obergrafeter,
yes it was in Georgetown. Cant remember the year we went to get it, i think 1996 or so, drove a couple of trailers down to TAM at Rio Hondo, loaded up, then preceded to delay and hold up traffic all the way back to Georgetown, it was there till my Dad moved to Denton in 2000, then on up to Gainsville.
Simon

[Ztex]

HA! That was my very first post on WIX!
I don't know if the wing structure is still in Denton or not...I have not seen that hangar open in a few years.

As of 2006 it was stored in a Hangar in Denton with the rest at Gainsville Texas according to the son of the owner in this WIX post at the time?

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=64667


Regards

Mark Pilkington

[NickO]

I just stumbled across this while looking for something else...

As a British student I worked at that Fabens airfield for Duane Egli for a summer in 1974 while that Anson, and the bones of a Canadian Hurricane were parked there- Whatever happened to that? Also on site at the time was a Merlin powered ex-spanish airforce Me 109 that someone had ground-looped, breaking the structural casting that attached the undercarriage to the wing-root. We were working on it at the time.

I thought that Duane had flown the Anson over from the UK and abandoned it at Fabens. He did fly a Mosquito across the Atlantic and delivered it to the then "Confederate air Force" in Harlingen Tx. where I also worked for a summer as a student.

By way of background, Duane Egli flew the camera plane for the "Battle of Britain" movie, and was also part of the team that restored the B-29 "fiFi" and flew it to Harlingen. He use to regale us with stories of his time flying in the Biafran war and the El Salvador, Honduras "Football War" Some web searching tells me he got involved is some sketchy embargo-busting arms running, and was last heard of living in Belgium avoiding the criminal repercussions that would face him if he returned to the US.