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AH 2040

£2600

This is a mint condition early MK I Hurricane spade grip. This grip was the forerunner of the WWII Spade grips using  push button firing as apposed to the paddle type levers used on the earlier 1930s Bi Planes. Practically all grips used in RAF Wartime fighters were based on this design in one form or another through the War. This particular grip has the Dunlop "Patent applied for" legend stamped on it and is extremely rare. This grip was only used on the MK I Hurricane and was made of aluminium alloy as apposed to magnesium used in the later grips reducing their weight. This grip is as good as it gets complete with an original brake lever and parking break catch. The parking brake catch is the only piece with any corrosion being made of steel, this is inevitable on something which dates from the late 1930's. The covering which is often in poor shape is original and in as new condition on this grip.  I see no reason why this grip should not fly again subject to the required checks.

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This is an original Hawker Typhoon control grip. It has its original electrical type firing button which is correct for the Typhoon. It has been recovered as the covering was badly damaged.  It has a high quality alloy reproduction brake lever. The grip has no filler or any other restoration work.

AH 8005

£1950

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This is a Spitfire Spade grip , it is the earliest production model fitted with the twin rocker cannon and MG firing button and was fitted to the Seafire, Spitfire Mks I B, II B, VB, VC, F.VI, VII, VIII, FIX, FXII, FXXI

 The grip has some restoration with a new covering and a reproduction brake lever in alloy. It has no filler and only some light pitting. There is surface rust on the parking brake.

Grip Reference AH 8068

Above the famous Australian MK VIII Spitfire Grey Goose

Above Mk II C Seafire

Above Mk VB Spitfire

£2200

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This is a Spitfire Spade control column top complete with sprocket in excellent condition and corrosion free.

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This is an original control column and yoke from a B17 Flying fortress. I acquired this yoke from the personal collection of an aviation dealer . He purchased it along with most of the other contents from the Aviation Museum at Hemswell.

The information that came with the column from the Museum  is in the form of a printed sheet seen under. There is no way of proving that this came from that exact B 17. How ever as the piece came from the Museum, on the previous site of RAF Hemswell with this information I see no reason the doubt the it.

The column has been partially restored due to the damage it received, the Boeing badge is not original, the buttons no longer function although still appear to be wired as you can see the original electrical cable disappearing into the yoke. The yoke retains its sprocket and still moves freely.

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B17 Flying fortress Lovely Julie serial number 38172

B17 Flying fortress Lovely Julie serial number 38172 returned to to the 398th Nuthampstead base after a mission to Cologne on 15 Oct 1944 after being very badly damaged by flak. All survived except S/Sgt. George E. Abbott, who was killed instantly. It seems quite incredible that this aircraft survived and managed to make it back to base and is a testament to the courage and skill of her pilot and crew not to mention how tough these aircraft were.

Shown under B17 Flying fortress Lovely Julie serial number 38172 immediately after her return from the mission to Cologne.

Here is a link to further information about the aircraft and her crew.

Here is a link to the 398th Bomber group memorial website.

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Here is a control yoke and sprocket from an Avro Anson.

The Avro Anson earned its nickname of "Faithful Annie" by serving the RAF from 1934 to 1968. The Anson Mk.I was a low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, a first for the RAF The construction, was conventional: the wing was made of spruce and Bakelite-bonded plywood, and its fuselage of steel tube with fabric and plywood covering. Originally the Anson's were painted with a shiny aluminium dope, but after the outbreak of war camouflage paint was applied. The cockpit with its large windows gave a good view all around. The engines were Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah IX radials, with two-bladed metal propellers. The Anson had a crew of four: pilot, bomb aimer, gunner, wireless operator. The General Reconnaissance version had a manually-operated gun turret with a single .303 gun, and a fixed gun in the nose. The air gunners were volunteers drawn from the ground crew, who received an additional shilling a day to their pay. Two 100lb bombs could be stowed internally, and external racks could carry eight 20lb bombs, flares or smoke generators.

£475

Squadron Leader David Leicester DFC and Bar

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Flight Lieutenant Ross Stanford DFC

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RAAF cricket team in 1945.Group portrait of the RAAF cricket team at Gloucester for the match against the RAF, one of a series of representative matches against teams of the English counties and the different services. Standing, left to right: Mr E. C. Rogers, the organiser; 39336 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) H. S. Craig; 438685 Flying Officer (FO) J. Pettiford; 407052 Warrant Officer R. G. Williams; Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Johnson, the manager; 410608 Pilot Officer Keith Ross Miller; 430410 Flt Sgt C. N. R. Stocks; Mr Sid Hipple, umpire. Seated: 416420 FO R. S. Ellis; 432462 FO D. R. Cristofani; 411527 Flt Lt A. W. Roper, captain; 403605 Squadron Leader S. G. Sismey; 28478 Flt Sgt J. A. Workman; 416624 FO R. M. Stanford DFC

Click on this link for a list of Ross crew and missions.

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This is a really superb original Lancaster control yoke, a very rare piece, not only in excellent original condition but signed by two RAAF Decorated Bomber Pilots.

The first signature belongs to

Squadron Leader David Leicester DFC & Bar

The second signature belongs to

 Flight Lieutenant Ross Stanford DFC

 R.M. (Ross) Stanford. who commenced operations  with the famed squadron on 1 March 1944.The genial and well-liked South Australian was born in Fulham  Gardens on 25 September 1917, and spent his  early working years with the State Bank.  It was while he was working at Tailem Bend that the  RAAF sent through a recruiting train, and the  young bank clerk eagerly volunteered for duty. But he hadn't figured on the stern rebuttal of the Medical  Officer, who declared him unfit for flying duties.

A keen and skilled  cricketer. young Stanford had once  suffered a severe blow to the back of the head with an errant cricket ball and become concussed. The M.0.  argued that this could affect a pilot flying at 20,000 feet. But his rejection by the RAAF only served to spur Stanford on and four months later he presented himself at  the Recruiting Centre in Adelaide. While waiting to see the M.O. Stanford told a sympathetic Corporal about  the previous setback, and was advised not to mention the injury although it was on his record. This time he  sailed through the physical.

 Once in England. Stanford was posted to No. 22 E.F.T.S. flying Tiger Moths for four weeks, to Ramsbury near Salisbury Plain where he again flew Oxfords, and then to Lichfield and No. 27 O.T.U. where he  learned to fly the twin-engined Wellington bomber.

 It was at Lichfield that Stanford formed the nucleus  of his crew; Alan Jordan (Wireless Operator), Tom Butler (Navigation Officer), George Clarke (Bomb Aimer), and "Blue" Venables (Rear Gunner).

The next step in his training took him to Swinderby and No. 1660 Conversion Unit. where he flew a Manchester bomber for 21/2 hours. His instructor at the Unit was F/Lt. Gerry Fawke (a later  Flight Commander with 617 Squadron) who assisted in the crew's final conversion to the Lancaster bomber.  Eddie Judson (Flight Engineer) and Les Griffiths (Mid Upper Gunner) teamed up with them to give a full  crew complement.

With No. 467 Squadron they went on raids to targets in Berlin and Dusseldorf in Germany. Stanford's log records the fact that he flew on eight missions to Berlin as pilot, and once as a second pilot.

"I was on 467 Squadron for the first part of my first  tour. One day the Station Commander said he wanted to fly with me while I dropped a few practice bombs at  Wainfleet Range. I felt there must have been a problem somewhere, but anyway off we went and flew up to  8,000 feet, with a bombing error calculated to 20, 000 feet. We dropped about ten practice bombs, and when  we landed I thought we'd done pretty well, although the Group Captain said he thought I'd used too much  rudder on my bombing runs. At afternoon tea he came and sat opposite me, clutching the results of the  exercise sent over by Wainfleet. He said "I'll have to apologise to you Stanford; Waddington reports that  yours was the best exercise put in by anyone on the squadron since they've been there!! Our average error  was 68 yards - very tight bombing in those days.

 "Our crew went on leave after that, and when 1 got back I was told that we were being transferred over to  617 Squadron, and had to be there in 48 hours. So we packed up, went around and got cleared. and joined  617 on February 24th.  “After we got there we did a few trips, and one or two of the crews posted over weren't too keen to go on.  Cheshire called us all together and told us that we could finish our first tour at thirty trips if we wanted, or  volunteer to so on. Eventually there was only one crew who decided not to continue on.

 "Our first mission as a crew was down to St. Etienne in the south of France on the 4th of March, to  bomb the La Ricamerie ball-bearing works. By the time we got there, however, our bomb sight had gone U/S  - the gyros were toppling all the time and we couldn't bomb accurately. So I called Cheshire and told him, and  he instructed me to wait around until all the other crews had bombed, which we did. He then told me to come  down to 3000 feet - the target was roughly - 1200 feet above sea level - and instruct my Bomb Aimer to drop  his bombs by his own judgement. He gave me directions to come in down-wind so that the smoke was all  blowing the other way; the factory was well alight by now, and we came down and George Clarke dropped  his bombs. It was the first time he'd dropped bombs on judgement and the lowest I'd ever flown to drop  them!"

This sale is for the signed control yoke.

Out of stock more wanted contact me if you have one for sale.

Seen in situ above in a Typhoon

The Hawker Aircraft Company produced the Typhoon . Powered by a Napier Sabre 24-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine, it had a maximum speed of 412 mph (663 km) and had a range of 980 miles (1,570 km). Armed with four 20 mm cannons it could carry 2,000 lb (907 kg) of bombs. It was 31 ft 11 in (9.73 m) long with a wingspan of 41ft 7 in (12.68 m).

This is possibly a unique opportunity to purchase a substantially complete throttle box from a Hawker Typhoon. I am not sure how many of these still exist but its there first I have seen in 15 years and probably the last. All the levers move, there is slight damage to the case please and one of the friction knobs is missing see the pictures but it could be returned to pristine condition with some work.

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£2399

This spade grip is in superb A1 condition dated 1936. It was made by the B.S.A. Company who are famous for making guns. The two paddles fire the guns using cables. It fits all RAF fighters and light bombers from about 1927 until 1937.

Comes complete with a wooden display stand.

1930's Fighters

Hawker Fury

Hawker Hart

Hawker Hind

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This is a mint condition Original Spitfire Spade grip used by all cannon armed Spitfire's generally from MK V onwards although some earlier experimental MK II's were cannon armed and would have used this grip. It is completely original including the brake lever and parking brake catch. Its rare to find one in such excellent completely original condition.

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Mk IX Spitfire

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Stamped AID 8C2 with the BSA stamp

 Bi Plane Spade Grip 2 (pg1 Controls)

Spitfire Mk I/II Spade grip (pg1 cont)

A high quality reproduction Spitfire spade grip in alloy. This type of grip was used through out the Battle of Britain until the introduction of 20mm cannon.

£140

Reproduction Brake Lever

Used on the Spitfire, Hurricane and other RAF Fighters this a quality reproduction in alloy but needs some work to be completely accurate ie the holes to hold the cable are not done.

Reproduction Brake lever (pg1 cont)

£55

Hurricane /Harvard grip (page 1 controls)

This grip is in excellent condition with no corrosion. It was originally a Hurricane grip and carries the AH 2040 number. At some stage it was modified as was common for Harvard use. The brake lever and cable holder was removed as the Harvard had toe brakes and did not need a brake lever. It is also missing its  gun button. The vast majority of RAF and Commonwealth fighter Pilots had their final training on Harvard's as they were relatively fast, had retractable undercarriage and were armed.

The grip seen in situ under in a Harvard cockpit.

£555

Brake grip attachment bolt (pg1 cont)

This is a bolt we have specially made which connects the brake lever to spade grips. As an example the Hurricane and Harvard shared a common grip the Harvard did not have a brake lever as it had toe brakes. The simple addition of the brake lever converts the grip to the Type used in Hurricanes. These bolts do fit other spade grip types as brake lever design seems to have been standard throughout the range. Despite being small they are quite complex and expensive to produce in small numbers.  

£35 each

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WWI RFC SE5A (pg1 controls)

This is a reproduction spade grip made to flying quality as a special order for a customer who did not complete the sale. The grip and gun paddles will require maching to complete them.

Seen in situ in a SE5A Cockpit below.

The SE5A was designed by British company R.A.F. (Royal Aircraft Factory).S.E. - Scout experimental (single seat fighters).

 The target was to build a fighter around Hispano-Suiza engine with 200 hp, which would be fast and have high climb speed. To reach this target engineers had to settle on a compromise. Making wing profile thin they simultaneously increased its surface area.

This design featured ailerons in top and lower wings. 5269 planes were built be the end of the war.

First trial flight was performed in January 1917.

The plane first saw combat in June 1917 in English squadron N 56. It was used to engage enemy fighters and balloons, bomber escort, very rarely to engage ground targets around the frontline.

The aircraft pilots mentioned durability of structure, sufficient manoeuvrability, stability in dive and when firing machineguns, fine handling, good sensitivity of controls at low speeds. When landing at high speed the plane long couldn't touch the ground due to high wing lift. Interesting that most British top aces flew this type of plane. It was even given a nickname – “Ace-maker

£900

Percival Prince control yoke (pg1 cont)

The twin-prop Percival Prince was once regularly flown by World War Two flying ace Douglas Bader during his days as a Shell pilot, and also flew between Liverpool and London for the post War airline, British Eagle.

The Sea Prince first flew on the 24th of March 1948. Two variants were ordered by the Fleet Air Arm - one version was to be used for communication and the other as a training aircraft. this one is unusual in that it has bomb release button and was probably used for torpedo training. A rare grip for the collector in excellent condition as only 21 of these aircraft were made for military use.

The twin-prop Percival Prince

Yoke seen in situ under

Currently out of stock we are always looking to purchase Grips contact me.

Original Spitfire Spade grip(pg1 cont)

Here is the ultimate Spade Grip for the Spitfire collector. A very rare item with the twin cannon and MG rocking gun button. This grip is totally original including the brake lever. The gun button functions perfectly. the safe works and the rockers move as they should.  The grip itself is in superb condition the covering being AI with no cracking.

This grip was fitted specifically to all Spitfires that were armed with 20mm cannon, so basically from MK V right onwards.

Dunlop Reference AH 8068  

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£1995

This a superb complete Hurricane control column in fully functional condition although it would need inspection and certification to fly again. The label on the base says it was taken from Hurricane Z 5145 FN-D  331 Squadron crashed 27th August 1941 Pilot Jens Muller. I have no way of authenticating this and do not guarantee this provenance, the information was attached to the base when I bought the column. Its likely that only some parts of this column may have been recovered form from the crash site as this column would not survive in this condition after a crash. There is some information about this crash on this link

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Seen in situ in a Hurricane cockpit under

Above and top right looking from the top the top of the column with grip fits on here.

Here is the lower part of the Hurricane control column, I believe the Typhoon and Tempest used the same unit.

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This rotax switch controls the  cowlings surrounding radial engines such as the Bristol Hercules and was used in a huge range of aircraft fitted with radial engines including the Halifax III, Lancaster II, Beaufighter, Stirling and Sunderland.

A Short Sunderland Flying Boat

This is a superb original Spitfire elevator trim unit, in good original condition. From looking at the drawing it appears to be complete apart from the back plate and cable. This like all original Spitfire parts is extremely rare and the first to appear on this site.

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This is an original rudder trim chain which is part of the Spitfire trim unit.

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This is a Spitfire elevator trim chain and attached cable in good condition.

490cm long/192 inches/16ft long

£155

Right seen in situ on LHS Spitfire cockpit.

This is a Teleflex control I believe for operating the engines, considering the position I have seen it fitted. I have seen the exact same piece fitted to the Beaufighter at the IWM Duxford shown under. This one appears to have a different mounting bracket so I would not claim its exclusive to this aircraft. It could be fitted to a whole array of Wartime RAF and commonwealth multi engine aircraft.

Bracket is marked 5163 HK5N

£ 125

Teleflex control 2 (pg1 cont SP)

Here is a mint condition original spade grip for a Harvard with a very rare alloy gun button which functions perfectly. This should be good enough to fly again subject to the required checks. It has not been cut to aid removal from the column and has no corrosion at all.

AH2242

The North American Harvard trainer was built in greater numbers than most combat aircraft during the Second World War, 17096 being produced. By the end of the War over 5000 had been supplied to British and Commonwealth Air Forces.

£ 875

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This is a Dunlop Mk II control grip. It was the first major development in the design of spade grips for many years and intended as an interim measure until the introduction of the upright or stick grip necessitated by the introduction of ejection seats. This grip was used in a wide variety of aircraft from the last and fastest of the late piston engine fighters to the new breed of jets.

 Aircraft that used this grip were the  Hawker fury, Spiteful, Vampire, Meteor IV, Balliol T 1, Spitfire F 22, F 24.

Spiteful

The Spiteful was a powerful, well-armed and extremely fast piston-engine fighter that appeared just too late to serve during World War II. Test pilots generally found it good to fly, but never in the same league as the sweet handling of the Spitfire. Its square laminar-flow wing was optimised for high-speed flight but also led to the type’s major snag: vicious low-speed handling, with a nasty stall. This was partly improved by various airframe changes, but these degraded the upper end of the flight envelope such that the production aircraft was little faster than the preceding Spitfire F.22/24.

Spitfire F 24

 Nevertheless, in 1947 the Spiteful F.16 with a Griffon 101 reached 494 miles per hour (795 kph), a record that still stands for piston-engine aircraft in Britain. The end of World War II , coupled with the obvious potential of jet aircraft, killed off any hopes of the Spiteful being built in large numbers, with the original RAF Order of 650 aircraft being reduced to just 22, some of which were sent straight to the scrap yard. The same fate ultimately befell many of the naval Seafang derivative, which may have had a fighting chance of serving operationally with the Royal Navy if it weren’t for Hawker’s superlative Sea Fury.

Sea Fury

Meteor MK IV

This is an original throttle box from a so far unknown aircraft type. It is fully functional and has a micro switch operated by the throttle arm. It is mounted on a brass plate but not sure if this is original. If you know what it is from please contact me.

Part numbers visible  are

C30674/4

The circular quality control stamp is MRO2

£275

The Provost entered service with the RAF in 1953. It had more than twice the power of its predecessor, the Prentice, with higher performance and manoeuvrability. The aircraft served with the RAF until the early 1960s, when it was replaced by the Jet Provost. A few Provosts continued in service until the last example was retired in 1969. Several retired airframes were renumbered with maintenance serials and used for training of airframe and engine tradesmen. At least five Percival Provost have survived as civilian aircraft.

This throttle is in excellent complete condition and is fully functional.

£275

£2250

Lancaster prop feathering switches supplied mint

in unopened original box

Find these in the electrical section link

One pair available

£40

Propeller feathering button as fitted to the cockpits of vintage British multi propeller engine aircraft. Very good condition

I suspect this to be a fuel priming pump for a pre WW1 aircraft, this is the oldest aviation part on the website.

It is clearly dated 1913 and made by Lunkenheimer, a company which still makes valves and pumps to this day. The other numbers are SP. 28477 Type EB. If anyone can tell me exactly what this part belongs to I will supply a voucher to use on the website.

The pump functions, the right angled bar acts as a tap, the face plate is faintly marked "ON" at the top. A 1913 By plane is shown left.

£375

The levers move freely and the bores are clean when stripped.

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Mosquito Flap and Hydraulic controls (pg1 cont)

Levers can be seen in situ in Mosquito cockpit above middle right just under the turn and slip indicator

ORIGINAL DH MOSQUITO COCKPIT FLAP & UNDERCARRIAGE SELECTOR VALVE AND 1 HYDRAULIC MODULE

£299

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Mint condition unused in original packaging and grease a Mosquito brake lever as fitted to the Pilots control yoke.

Seen in situ left.

£275

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DATED 1949 A/M 6B/504

This is a control panel fitted to the De-Havilland Hornet and possibly late Mosquitoes. All the switches function and are the same type as the Spitfire supercharger switch.

The "DH.103 Hornet", as it would be known, was intended for the Pacific theatre, where the great ocean spaces made long range a requirement. De Havilland worked with Rolls-Royce to obtain a slim-profile version of the Merlin engine for the Hornet, and with a design for this engine in hand, de Havilland was able to show a mock-up of the Hornet to the Ministry of Air Production in January 1943.

The fighter was armed with four 20 millimetre Hispano cannon, fitted under the nose. The pilot sat under a backwards-sliding bubble-type canopy. The second prototype and production aircraft were fitted for under wing stores, including two 909 litre (200 imperial gallon / 240 US gallon) drop tanks; or two 450 kilogram (1,000 pound) bombs; or eight 60-pounder RPs; or two 225 kilogram (500 pound) bombs and four RPs. Since the production aircraft were fitted with operational kit, they were heavier and so slower than the prototypes, but not by much, with a top speed of 760 KPH (472 MPH).

£55

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 This is an auto pilot control for a Hastings, it has the aircraft serial number and date marked on it identifying the actual aircraft.  Here is a picture of the actual aircraft this control came from.

Handley Page Hastings C1A, TG561 / K, Royal Air Force

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See this link for information about the Hastings.

£75

This is an American wartime throttle box in superb condition, clearly for a smaller type of aircraft and similar to the Fairchild shown above and the P47, so far I have been unable to identify the specific aircraft this was used used in. If you can identify its use please email me.

On the top lever is a push button switch probably for radio use is has the following numbers.

This throttle appears to be orientated for use the the right hand side of the cockpit and has an electrical connection.

OH

N.A.F-1124-17

£575

The Supermarine Attacker was the first jet-powered fighter used by the British Royal Navy.

Really rare Supermarine Attacker - grip and yoke (Supermarine stamps on yoke 39833 137 

Notice how similar it is to the Spitfire one! - can't be many people with one of these.

 In superb condition.

The Supermarine Attacker was a single engine jet fighter . The base model of the Spiteful piston aircraft shown through in its design as the aircraft sat tilted back like earlier piston engine aircraft of World War Two. Though fitted with a tricycle landing gear assembly, the tilt forced the aircraft to rest on a forth, albeit smaller, landing gear system at rear. The Attacker was simply armed with a 4 x 20mm cannon array, mounted in the wings

£575

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This is a complete set of rudder pedals from a Fairey Swordfish they are not crash damaged and are straight made in stainless they are corrosion free and in perfect condition. I see no reason why they should not fly again subject to the required checks.

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The Swordfish evolved from the prototype Fairey TSR.II (Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance), designed by Marcel Lobelle and HE Chaplin of the Fairey Aviation Company Ltd., first flew in 1934 and entered service with No.825 Squadron in 1936.

In all, 2391 aircraft were built, the first 692 machines by Fairey Aviation and the remainder under licence by Blackburn Aircraft Company at their works at Sherburn-in-Elmet and Brough, Yorkshire. In service the Blackburn-built aircraft became unofficially known as "Blackfish".

 Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this very distinguished aircraft was its longevity. Although by all normal standards it was already obsolete at the outbreak of WW2, it confounded everyone by remaining in operational service throughout the whole of the war, and thereby gained the distinction of being the last British bi-plane to see active service.

 Indeed, it outlasted its intended replacement, the Albacore, which disappeared from front-line service in 1943.
 

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£1995

Seen in situ below in a Lancaster

This is a trim wheel from a Lancaster. It is made of Brown Bakelite aeroplastic. Type AS 102.

  Probably in the top five rarest parts on this website almost impossible to source and the first I have ever seen . Superb serviceable condition subject to the required checks.

SIZE, approx = 10".

MAKER'S STAMP FOR ARMSTRONG WHITWORTH AVIATION

£275