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1962
1962 - 0662.PDF
* "off* ?'.v^: »~5E • • p™ f, 660 FLIGHT International, 26 April l%i ""SP*—- ""JET— ""ST"- i%feX*» - Above, t/?e Sywell site of the Shackleton display. Right, Keith Shackleton (left) and Robert £. Crowe, who were in charge of the used aircraft park Shackleton-time at Sywell THE news that Shackleton Aviation Ltd is to set up its first airfield base was given during the international aircraft display organized by the company at Northampton Airport (Sywell) during April 13-15. Appropriately, Sywell is the site chosen for this expansion. In spite of keen winds throughout the weekend, which made company marquee interiors of more immediate interest than aircraft exteriors, the exhibition was well attended and highly successful. It was good to have a Farnborough-type show devoted to fight aircraft; the aircraft spotters were in their element; and a number of aircraft actually were sold. Approximately 100 new and used aircraft were on display, and about 375 visiting aircraft arrived during the weekend. The Piaggio P. 166 purchased by United Breweries Ltd was handed over on the Saturday at Sywell by Mr Kenneth McAlpine of McAlpine Aviation to Mr David Constable Maxwell, a director of the brewery company. After the handing-over ceremony, selected guests received a taste of the Piaggio—and of Carling black-label lager—during demonstration flights over Northamptonshire. Another executive-aircraft order was announced at the show by W. H. and J. Rogers (Aviation) Ltd of Cranfield, regional dealers for Cessna. This was a Cessna Skyknight for the car accessory firm of Wilmot Breedon. In a first-year progress report, the Beagle company announced that line production of the developed B.206 would begin later this year, with deliveries beginning in 1963. The pre-production 206 is expected to fly this summer. Also scheduled to fly this summer is the M.218, with line production planned for early 1963. Distri bution of Beagle aircraft in the United Kingdom is to be handled by British Executive Air Services Ltd of Kidlington. British Executive Air Services Ltd are also handling UK sales of the two-seat Brantly B-2 helicopter. Other new types seen for the first time in Britain at Sywell included the Piper Aztec B, shown by CSE Aviation; Flair-Aviation's Bolkow Junior; and the SFERMA/Beechcraft Marquis demonstrated frequently and audibly throughout the show by Short Brothers and Harland. Air Vice-Marshal D. C. T. Bennett's Fairtravel company was exhibiting Garland Linnet G-APNS. Approximately 40 aircraft were for sale in the used aircraft park, each with specification and price clipped to its propeller. Cheapest was a £400 Tiger Moth, and largest was Keegan Aviation's exe cutive DC-4 fitted with period American furniture. "Flight International" photographs Visitors to Sywell included (left) the SFERMA Beechcraft Marquis powered by two Astazou turbo- props, (below left) a Cessna 3I0G and (below right) an Aermacchi-Lockheed 60, exhibited respectively by Short Brothers and Harland, Steels Aviation Ltd of Bristol, and Astra Aircraft Corporation (Pty) Ltd
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