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Hawker Tempest MkII

Posted by on Aug 27, 2012 in Blog | 6 comments

We were hoping to keep this secret, but with the amount of interest that was never going to happen. So here is the photo of our trial fit up, this is to make sure before restoration gets into full swing that there are no major glitches in alignment and symmetry. All looks good!

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Red Nose Day.

Posted by on Aug 23, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

CAG is in the shop for it’s annual servicing, red nose didn’t fit too well but I’m sure you get the picture. We are proud to still be associated with this aircraft which was rebuilt here and is still going strong.

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Tempest visitors.

Posted by on Aug 16, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

A big day for us all on Tuesday with visitors coming in to view the Tempest. Guest’s of honour was Jack Stafford and his wife Edith, Jack needs no real introduction and we were pleased to be able to re-unite him with the Tempest after last sitting in one in 1946. Also present were Jim McCaw’s sons Donald and John and Ron Peet who flew...

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10th August 2012.

Posted by on Aug 9, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

Well it has been a little over a week since we got our new website up and running and we are pleased with it’s progress, still a lot of up dating to go on but a good start. In the hangar this week work has been carrying on with all of the current projects, manufacture of fuselage skins for the T51, final assembly of the P-40E tailplane and initial...

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New Website!!!!!

Posted by on Jul 31, 2012 in Blog | 1 comment

After a series of technical problems we are now back in buisness with our new/updated website. Keep a close eye on it over the next few months as we attempt to bring it up to date, we will be filling in the gaps and also adding the exciting new projects we are currently working on.

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Stephen Fox

Stephen Fox

Posted by on Jul 12, 2012 in Blog, Staff | 0 comments

Engineer. Stephen left school at the end of year 12 and went to work at Mosquito Aircraft Restoration and was involved in the building of 2 Mosquito fuselages before joining Pioneer Aero in 2015.  

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