Do you remember a DH fly In?

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Hi

I have been converting all my aircraft photos & slides into a digital format.

I have a few photos of a De Havilland Fly-in that took place in either 1982 or 1983 I think September which makes me think 1983 is a better bet.
Does any one remember this and when it happened?

I have attached a pic of the old control tower & numerous Moths taken from the hill by the Swan.

One other pic I have from that day is of a Swiss DH82 all I can see is HB- any ideas of its full reg.
HB-UBC is the only one in a similar colour scheme I can find on the web.

Also can you help as I have lots of Farnborough pics now in jpeg format but the slides are about 2-3M which is too big for uploading. I find resizing ruins the quality how do you go about posting pics which are a good size to upload.

In the same way my Canon digital camera produces pics of around 7M.

Fortunately the attached pic is from a print so came in at only a few hundred kB.

Cheers for any help

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Yes, I do remember a Moth fly in at Farnborough in the early part of the 1980s. I have found some notes which I think must have been from this day and which would appear to have been some time in 1982. I omitted to write the actual date, only 'De havilland Centenary'! Anyway, here is my list:
De havillands G-AIYS, AIXD,AAZP,ACMN,AELO,AEDU,AEOA,AOAA,ANRN,AOEI,ANFM,AYUX,ANOH,
ALIW,AOZH,ADND,ARAZ,ANDM,ADGV,AOIR,ANTE,AYIT,APFU,ANDP,ALWW,
AGYU,AOEG,APMX,ANCS,ACDJ,AJOA,ANZU,BEWN,BACK,EBLV,BFHH,ASPV,
AHBL,ANJA,AAWO,APAO. F-BGCS,D-EEAJ,PH-CSL & yes HB-UBC. I have G-AXBW but not sure if it landed. Resident Chippy (even in those days!) G-BDDD, XN649. D-EBGL.
Other types Stampe G-AZCB; Proctors G-AOGE, ANXR.
Querie corner: Something which looks like G-AWIK which was a Beech Musketeer. Can anyone confirm if this was present?
A couple of military serials: T8191 & 'PG6126' the latter of which seems spurious. I can't find a tie-up in my 1983 or 82 Air Britain registers for it.
Unfortunately, your piccy won't open for me.

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Hi There,

thanks for the info.

1982 is enough info.
And thanks for confirming HB-UBC the other pics I have are PH-CSL, K2572 which I found is G-AOZH & F-BGCS.

The quality is a bit sketchy as these were taken when I was starting to get into photography + also was learning to use this scanner.


It's the first time I've tried to upload a pic so I may have done something wrong don't know if that can be checked.

Please let me know as I would like to post other pics and if someone can please help with the file size issue.

When I open it here ( this is a work pc) I get silly adverts for pc games but this is normal something to do with my companies server not being UK based. After the advert appears I get asked the usual "is this a safe source" windows question click open and the pic appears.


I notice it now appears as a thumbnail at the bottom of my post.


cheers again

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Hi There,

Just googled Geoffrey De Havilland and found he was born on 27th July 1882 so I guess I've got a date!!

Didn't know he started at the balloon factory and his first aircraft the FE1 was the first Royal Aircraft Factory product.

Cheers

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Hi, re. your enquiries - T8191 was possibly DH82A c/n 84483, later G-BWMK. I attended a Moth rally at Hatfield in June 1979 and logged it there.
Also there was PG617 (G-AYVY) and PG651 (G-AYUX) which may help your unidentified but there are many better De Havilland fans than I!

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Just saw ABPIC link for T8191 -
www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1052435/

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pics-by-matthew.photobook.org.uk/c1543500.html

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The DeH Moth Club rally fly-in to Farnborough was on 4th July 1982.

Further to comment in the posts above, yes G-BDDD was there even then, we bought her in 1979 and she's still here now !

Musketeer G-AWIK was present, as was one other aircraft not mentioned above namely Turbulent G-AWWT. This was the only way I could be at the PFA Rally for part of the the day and help out with the refuelling team for the Moth fly-in for the remainder of the day.

Cheers