In June 2012 Eric Hertz bought out to Pioneer Aero two bottles of bubbly. The first one was drunk to celebrate the arrival of two container loads of parts from France that it was hoped in a year or two’s time would be a flying Hawker Tempest MkII. The second unfortunately remains unopened, this was the bottle that was going to be drunk to celebrate...
Read MoreP40 servicing.
Look at Current Maintenance under projects to keep up with the latest at Pioneer Aero. Now the Mustang TAF has been finished and is now back flying it is the turn of the P40 to have a once over.
Read MoreCurrent Maintenance.
Just some additions and minor change to the web site, the main one being the addition of a Current Maintenance in the projects. We thought there maybe some interest in this, we are currently working on the P51 TAF and coming up maintenance work and annuals on the P40 CAG and Strikemaster 70. Photos of this to follow. There have also been some additional...
Read MoreTempest MkII
Pioneer Aero’s rollercoaster ride with the Tempest MkII is about to come to an end. In the last 2 years this project has given us for various reasons hope, jubilation and despair. The project has now been sold off shore and in the next month or so we should be packing it up and dispatching it. We are buoyed by the fact it is going to a new owner who...
Read MoreIt’s here.
Just arrived from Austria, notice that containers never arrive on Mondays. We will be unpacking on Monday, any guesses? ...
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Every now and then we get asked if someone can come in and look around and take photos, we are generally more than happy for this to happen. Every now and then we even get some shots that we think are noteworthy, this is the case here. Attached are some photos taken by young photographic student Olivier Longley, these are just a small selection of what he...
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