Sywell Visit 25.03.22

[MUSTANG51]

My first trip to Sywell this year and a nice surprise was seen, just delivered the day before (in kit form) was a Lockheed 12A Electra N12EJ to become G-AFTL (its old reg). Plenty of history to this aircraft as it was flown on covert photo missions over Germany just before the start of WW2.

Peter



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[Anmer]

Thanks Peter for sharing these.

[Ospreyv22]

Hi Peter,

You were on the ball spotting the the Electra in kit form.
Many wouldn't of seen that.

Ian

[MUSTANG51]

It was only delivered on Thursday but apparently was put undercover late on Friday after my morning visit, a few others had noticed it and there are more photos knocking about now. I did read an article about it in Aeroplane Montlhy about 3 months ago but no idea it was coming to Sywell...

The next Spitfire RM927 / G-JNMA (being rebuilt for a French owner) also appeared outside along with the next Buchon G-HISP...basically to fit the Electra in.

Peter