Aircraft News

Fury - G-CBEL is now with North Weald Heritage Aviation painted to represent the Fury prototype SR 661, as seen on the Association’s recent visit.

Hurricane XII - newly refurbished, Canadian built, VH-JFW flew for the first time at Scone, New South Wales, in October.

Hurricane I - P2902/G-ROBT is at Hawker Restorations and is expected to fly at North Weald next year.

Sopwith Pup - Kingston-built N6161, fully restored by Retrotec in East Sussex, flew at Duxford in October.   


Guy Black

‘AEROPLANE’ magazine for November has an eight page article about Guy Black and his career in car and aircraft restoration from Lynx via Aero Vintage to Retrotec. Guy is responsible for the very high quality restoration of several Hawker biplanes and in the article he describes his searches for the remains and the restoration work itself.