2017(18th annual) Abingdon Air & Country Show

[peasus911]

Abingdon Night Shoot on the Saturday night prior to the Sunday show now taking bookings. Very limited numbers so first come first served.

[Scudpilot]

Is the above likely to be the final lineup, or could we see additions (not that there is anything wrong with what we have so far!)

[MRTT]

My mistake, I've not updated the posted list for a while, I'll sort that out.

Royal Air Force
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight- Supermarine Spitfire (F)
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight- Hawker Hurricane (F)
Shorts Tucano T1 (S)- 72(R) Squadron
Agusta A.109E Power (S)- 32(TR) Squadron

Army Air Corps
Army Air Corps Historic Flight- De Haviland Canada Beaver AL1 'XP820' (F/S)
Army Air Corps Historic Flight- Westland Scout AH1 'XT626' (F/S)

Classic Jets & Cold War Era Types
De Haviland Sea Vixen FAW2 'XP924' (F)- Navy Wings
Bell UH-1H Huey 'G-HUEY' (F)- Private Owner

Warbirds
Yakovlev Yak-3U (F/S)- Yak Association
North American P-51D Mustang 'Tall in the Saddle' (F/S)- Hangar 11 Collection
North American T-28S Fennec (F/S)- Groupe Fennec
The Great War Display Team- 3x R.A.F Se5A (F/S)
The Great War Display Team- 1x R.A.F Be2C (F/S)
The Great War Display Team- 1x Sopwith Triplane (F/S)
The Great War Display Team- 1x Avro 504K (F/S)
The Great War Display Team- 2x Junkers CL.1 (F/S)
The Great War Display Team- 2x Fokker DR.1 Triplane (F/S)
Yakovlev Yak-3UM (S)- Will Greenwood

Civilian
Fournier RF-4D (F/S)- Bob Grimstead
Antonov An-2 (F/S)- AN2 Club
Antonov An-2 (F/S)- Jump4Heroes Parachute Display Team Drop Ship
Pitts S-2S Special 'Muscle Biplane' (F/S)- Rich Goodwin
Calidus Autogyro (F/S)- Gyro Air Displays
The Twister Aerobatics Team- 2x Silence SA.100 Twister (F/S)
The Brietling Wingwalkers- 2x Boeing Stearman (F/S)
Pitts S-1S Special (F/S)- Andy Gent

Credit to Flightline UK for the list.

There'll also be a number of privately owned aircraft flying in on the day.

[MRTT]

Huey 'G-HUEY' confirmed, final display item!

[peasus911]

Love the smell of a Huey in the morning......

[MRTT]

Wasp 'XT787' has been cancelled, Sioux has been replaced by Beaver.

Sadly, don't think the Sea Vixen will be ready, great shame.

[MRTT]

Sea Vixen confirmed cancelled, warbird replacement being sought.

Will Greenwood is bring his Yak-3 for static display.

[Knife 04]

Just a quick word of warning for those of you using the M4 to get from the east / west to get to the A34 to go north. Believe the M4 will be closed (notices up) over next weekend between Newbury (13) and Theale (12) - anybody coming from the west I would recommend factoring more time to exit the motorway at 13 or going cross country from 14

Newbury and area was gridlocked when a similar closure was in place a couple of weeks ago

Cheers

Darren

[MRTT]

Thanks Darren, given me time to find an alternative route.

[MRTT]

Aces High C-47 confirmed for the flying display, nice addition!

[Supra]

Presumably the 'AH' C-47 is a substitute for the cancelled BBMF Dakota (which itself was a replacement for the Lancaster!). Is there a worthy substitute for the Sea Vixen to be added to the 'Flying' yet?
Even delaying Abingdon two weeks to allow for late over-winter maintenance hasn't helped to ease the Organisers of the aviation element to this event. You have to wonder what it takes for these aviation participant's to wake-up & realise they have to get ready earlier to maximise on reduced opportunities to display at a decimated number of events. Recent changes to CAP 403 have zero affect on the aircraft display if you haven't even air-tested it yet?
(Vixen for example?) Both the BBMF & Navy Wings have none of their star-acts even flyable at present, unless somebody can tell me differently?
Good work by the home-team to keep this show on the rails! You deserve a lucky-break with aircraft serviceability issues & particularly the weather?

[MRTT]

Doesn't look like weather should be an issue, looks fantastic at the moment.

[Supra]

Gotta get me some of those pinky spectacles! Talking of glasses, I need a top-up to 'glass half full' too.
Guess we'll know the weather when we're there?

[MRTT]

Shipping & Heritage Airlines are planning to send their DH.90 Dragonfly, DH.87 Hornet Moth, DHC-1 Chipmunk and Rearwin Sportster for static display, they're due to arrive on Sunday morning.

Also appears the Ryan SCW, present at Old Warden last weekend will be attending.

[Scudpilot]

hearing rumblings of a Meteor of Facebook......

[MRTT]

Orange T7 from Martin Baker has landed, on static.

[Threshold.aero]

If anyone is interested, checklists will be available on the day from the Threshold.aero stand - priced at £1

[nwalch]

[quote="Threshold.aero"]If anyone is interested, checklists will be available on the day from the Threshold.aero stand - priced at £1

quote]

Will they be available at the nightshoot as well?

[MRTT]

Nice weather forecast for tomorrow, makes a change!

[T0RNAD0-GR4]

Does anyone have any frequency information for this? Thanks!