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September 28th.

Posted by on Sep 28, 2012 in Blog | 2 comments

We would like to congratulate all involved in the return of Mosquito KA114 to the air here at Ardmore. It was great to see it become airbourne yesterday after following the work for so many years, and we are all looking forward to it flying tomorrow with several other aircraft of the same era. Also finished this week was the static (for now) Macchi which...

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Update 24th Sept 2012

Posted by on Sep 23, 2012 in Blog | 2 comments

The P40E tailplane is now finished, check out the new photo of it with fin attached. The first of the Tempest wings is now suspended in the jig with the final mountings just being finalised now. Work has also started on the Tempest forward fuselage with separation of the forward section frame from the monocoque scheduled to happen next week. The NZ...

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Week ending 7th September

Posted by on Sep 7, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

It has been a busy week with work just about at an end on the P40-E tailplane. Work has continued on the T51 build and the setting up of the fixtures for the rebuild of the Tempest MkII. We have also been assisting New Zealand Warbirds with the assembly of their Macchi 339c which will be displayed in their hangar next to Shyhawk 09. ...

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