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Posted on original forum on the 01/12/2007 by old eagle
OK lets try another one. I have fond memories of Blackbushe and Auster Alpha G-APCY, and flying one very cold and snowing day via Hawarden (no radio in the aircraft) to Liverpool for a major engineering check - and then the post major C of A air test at Liverpool with Dave Graham as P1. I have a black and white pic of G-APCY with a racing number 124, which I believe was taken somewhat later than 1968. Sometime after Eagle days the aircraft was being flown to Australia but crashed in Thailand. It has been rebuilt in Australia as VH-PCY (pic on Airliners.net) but I don’t know if it is currently airworthy. Anyone have any other pics?
Posted on original forum on the 02/12/2007 by Red Eagle
Hello Old Eagle, glad that you have found us. If you look at the reg dropdown you will I hope find all the info regarding G-APCY. The owner John Person sent these pictures to us via an old Eagle crewmember earlier this year. I would be interested to see your black and white pictures. Regards.
Posted on original forum on the 08/12/2007 by old eagle
Sorry Red Eagle, what/where drop down reg , could not find reference to PCY?
Posted on original forum on the 11/12/2007 by Viscount800
Old Eagle, I too read Red Eagle entry. I found the link he refers to. From the main site index page, select upper right option AIRCRAFT FLOWN. You are then presented with 3 options. Only the right hand one will lead to the desired information. So select AIRCRAFT FLOWN BY TYPE AND REGISTRATION. Then scroll down to Auster J/1 Autocrat and select G-APCY. Have fun!
Posted on original forum on the 11/12/2007 by old eagle
DOH! I looked at the other two only!!!! Many thanks V800 Rgds DC
Posted on original forum on the 11/12/2007 by Womble
Well Spotted the Reg is missing on the Reg only page I will get that amended
Posted on original forum on the 12/12/2007 by viscount800
G-APCY, an Auster J/1N Alpha was built at Rearsby in 1957. Through the years the aircraft has had a succession of registered owners in Britain, Nigeria and currently Australia. The time-line of G-APCY runs like this. Note: all ownership change dates are CAA paper-work dates, so can lag behind actual delivery, often by many months.)
Reg’d 26.6.57 as G-APCY to Britten-Norman Ltd, Bembridge. First C of A issued 4.7.57. Almost certainly one of a number of new Alphas to be fitted by Britten-Norman associate company, Crop Culture, with a B-N designed rotary atomiser on under wing pylons.
Re-reg’d 10.7.59 to Crop Culture (Overseas) Ltd at Bembridge and used on overseas contracts. G-APCY cancelled 24.12.60 on sale as VR-NDQ to Lagos Flying Club, Nigeria.
Later re-reg’d in the new national sequence, with same owners as 5N-ACX. Restored as G-APCY 11.12.62 to Air Stock West Africa of Bembridge (an associate company of Crop Culture).
Re-regd 7.6.63 to CP Stevens & A Osterley t/a Farnborough Popular Flying Group at Blackbushe. Re-regd 18.11.66 to CP Stevens & JH Tice t/a Airlines Flying Group, Blackbushe.
Re-regd 4.1.68 to Shackleton Aviation Ltd at Sywell.
Re-regd 29.4.68 to JR Leigh & B Huxford at Ingoldmells.
Re-regd 12.8.71 to G Ward, GD Ward, L Saffer, DM Upfield at Hull/Paull.
Re-regd 25.1.74 to BL, NJ Peterson at Cambridge.
Re-regd 15.8.74 to CR Wilson at White Waltham.
Re-regd 20.1.75 to JR Pearson at While Waltham and later Booker. Aircraft left from Booker 30.10.76 with JR Pearson and C Ogden for a return to their Australian homeland. Crashed in Thailand 3.77 while en route and badly damaged. Transported to Australia for rebuild. UK C of A lapsed 14.7.77. Cancelled from UK register 11.1.84 as sold in Australia.
Registered 8.5.84 as VH-PCY. According to the CASA web site the registration is current. Owner (as last notified, 1/06) John Pearson of Harkaway, Victoria State. There cannot be that many private aircraft kept by the same owner for over thirty years! These details (except the last lines) transcribed from a 1978 Air Britain Publication The British Civil Register G-APAA to G-APZZ. Just a co-incidence that I recently noticed this book pushed to the back of a bookcase.
OK lets try another one. I have fond memories of Blackbushe and Auster Alpha G-APCY, and flying one very cold and snowing day via Hawarden (no radio in the aircraft) to Liverpool for a major engineering check - and then the post major C of A air test at Liverpool with Dave Graham as P1. I have a black and white pic of G-APCY with a racing number 124, which I believe was taken somewhat later than 1968. Sometime after Eagle days the aircraft was being flown to Australia but crashed in Thailand. It has been rebuilt in Australia as VH-PCY (pic on Airliners.net) but I don’t know if it is currently airworthy. Anyone have any other pics?
Posted on original forum on the 02/12/2007 by Red Eagle
Hello Old Eagle, glad that you have found us. If you look at the reg dropdown you will I hope find all the info regarding G-APCY. The owner John Person sent these pictures to us via an old Eagle crewmember earlier this year. I would be interested to see your black and white pictures. Regards.
Posted on original forum on the 08/12/2007 by old eagle
Sorry Red Eagle, what/where drop down reg , could not find reference to PCY?
Posted on original forum on the 11/12/2007 by Viscount800
Old Eagle, I too read Red Eagle entry. I found the link he refers to. From the main site index page, select upper right option AIRCRAFT FLOWN. You are then presented with 3 options. Only the right hand one will lead to the desired information. So select AIRCRAFT FLOWN BY TYPE AND REGISTRATION. Then scroll down to Auster J/1 Autocrat and select G-APCY. Have fun!
Posted on original forum on the 11/12/2007 by old eagle
DOH! I looked at the other two only!!!! Many thanks V800 Rgds DC
Posted on original forum on the 11/12/2007 by Womble
Well Spotted the Reg is missing on the Reg only page I will get that amended
Posted on original forum on the 12/12/2007 by viscount800
G-APCY, an Auster J/1N Alpha was built at Rearsby in 1957. Through the years the aircraft has had a succession of registered owners in Britain, Nigeria and currently Australia. The time-line of G-APCY runs like this. Note: all ownership change dates are CAA paper-work dates, so can lag behind actual delivery, often by many months.)
Reg’d 26.6.57 as G-APCY to Britten-Norman Ltd, Bembridge. First C of A issued 4.7.57. Almost certainly one of a number of new Alphas to be fitted by Britten-Norman associate company, Crop Culture, with a B-N designed rotary atomiser on under wing pylons.
Re-reg’d 10.7.59 to Crop Culture (Overseas) Ltd at Bembridge and used on overseas contracts. G-APCY cancelled 24.12.60 on sale as VR-NDQ to Lagos Flying Club, Nigeria.
Later re-reg’d in the new national sequence, with same owners as 5N-ACX. Restored as G-APCY 11.12.62 to Air Stock West Africa of Bembridge (an associate company of Crop Culture).
Re-regd 7.6.63 to CP Stevens & A Osterley t/a Farnborough Popular Flying Group at Blackbushe. Re-regd 18.11.66 to CP Stevens & JH Tice t/a Airlines Flying Group, Blackbushe.
Re-regd 4.1.68 to Shackleton Aviation Ltd at Sywell.
Re-regd 29.4.68 to JR Leigh & B Huxford at Ingoldmells.
Re-regd 12.8.71 to G Ward, GD Ward, L Saffer, DM Upfield at Hull/Paull.
Re-regd 25.1.74 to BL, NJ Peterson at Cambridge.
Re-regd 15.8.74 to CR Wilson at White Waltham.
Re-regd 20.1.75 to JR Pearson at While Waltham and later Booker. Aircraft left from Booker 30.10.76 with JR Pearson and C Ogden for a return to their Australian homeland. Crashed in Thailand 3.77 while en route and badly damaged. Transported to Australia for rebuild. UK C of A lapsed 14.7.77. Cancelled from UK register 11.1.84 as sold in Australia.
Registered 8.5.84 as VH-PCY. According to the CASA web site the registration is current. Owner (as last notified, 1/06) John Pearson of Harkaway, Victoria State. There cannot be that many private aircraft kept by the same owner for over thirty years! These details (except the last lines) transcribed from a 1978 Air Britain Publication The British Civil Register G-APAA to G-APZZ. Just a co-incidence that I recently noticed this book pushed to the back of a bookcase.