Sea Fury C-FGAT now listed at Courtesy

[SeptRepair]

I remember many years ago we had a BEAUTIFUL Sea Fury, stock... with 5 blades attached to a Bristol Centaurus. Sadly that plane was sold down to Florida, I believe. "Simply Magnificant" was an ex-Iraqi Air Force craft.

Peace,

David

Yes that aircraft was an original Iraqi Baghdad Fury. It was a pleasant sight to see that aircraft and Jerry Jane's Cottonmouth in formation busting up the lower mainland and Victoria. Even better was when the Firefly and Fury were side by side both in Canadian markings. An interesting side note. The name "Simply Magnificent" was a name my ex-girlfriend came up with when Don Crowe was looking to name it in keeping with the theme of the HMCS Magnificent. I had said something along the lines of what a "simply beautiful" looking machine and she piped in it's "Simply Magnificent".

[Dave Hadfield]

Too bad. I always admired the way Sandy used this airplane for an actual IFR business airplane. He put in a lot of time on it, and said it was less cost and less maintenance than the Piper Cheyenne-type aircraft he'd been using before.

He used to bring it to our airshows at Gatineau, and also landed with us at Rockcliffe, which is 3200 ft and always out of wind. Always a pleasure to watch.

Dave

[Tim Adams]

Even more years ago, there was N232J which appeared at at least one of the CWH shows in not entirely accurate, but still pretty nice Canadian markings.



Nowadays the same identity TG114 is claimed by the Sanders' Argonaut which is also in Canadian colors but has that propeller defect.

And before that there was Hayden-Baille's which was painted up a little like a Tempest.

August

I believe today N232J is part of the Rod Lewis Collection after being prepared as a highly modified Air Racer named September POPS. It won the Reno Gold race a few years back.
Frank Sanders rebuilt it back in the late 60s after a friend was killed when it landed off airport IIRC. He fitted the larger canopy after creating a back seat area.
He also developed the wing tip smoke generators and used them on this aircraft performing at Air Shows for many years.
It went through a number of owners after the Sanders Family sold it.
Frank had another dual control Sea Fury he restored that he used instead of 232.
They later pioneered the engine conversions to improve reliability of the powerplant.

Correction, September Pops never won the Gold at Reno, September Fury did. Two vastly different Sea Fury's in terms of performance.

[Steve T]

Yep, and as noted above "September Fury" is the ex-RCN FB.11, or at least that's how she started out. Brown's other Fury, N233MB "September Pops", was/is an ex-DLB T.20 trainer.

S.

[51fixer]

Even more years ago, there was N232J which appeared at at least one of the CWH shows in not entirely accurate, but still pretty nice Canadian markings.



Nowadays the same identity TG114 is claimed by the Sanders' Argonaut which is also in Canadian colors but has that propeller defect.

And before that there was Hayden-Baille's which was painted up a little like a Tempest.

August

I believe today N232J is part of the Rod Lewis Collection after being prepared as a highly modified Air Racer named September POPS. It won the Reno Gold race a few years back.
Frank Sanders rebuilt it back in the late 60s after a friend was killed when it landed off airport IIRC. He fitted the larger canopy after creating a back seat area.
He also developed the wing tip smoke generators and used them on this aircraft performing at Air Shows for many years.
It went through a number of owners after the Sanders Family sold it.
Frank had another dual control Sea Fury he restored that he used instead of 232.
They later pioneered the engine conversions to improve reliability of the powerplant.

Correction, September Pops never won the Gold at Reno, September Fury did. Two vastly different Sea Fury's in terms of performance.

Duh.
Sorry bout that.
That would be Fury, not Pops, then.
With Pops being a dual control Mk set up it is not 232.