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G-ELMH 42-84555 EP-H North American Aviation AT-6D Harvard III (T6 Texan)
Maurice Hammond's T6 Harvard - "Fools Rush In" at the Seething Airfield Charity Air Day 2010.
This aircraft was built in1944 as one of 22 examples built for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, and left Newark for the UK in May 1944. Arriving in July at 46MU at Lossiemouth she was allocated the serial number EZ341, and after serving with a number of units was struck off charge in 1956 and sold to the Portuguese Air Force where she served until 1973.
After a period in storage, she was transferred to the Portuguese Air Force Museum in Alverca before being shipped back to the UK in 1991. She was acquired by Maurice Hammond in 1992, and after a two year restoration project, she took to the air again in 1994 as G-ELMH. She currently wears the markings of a 100th Bomb Group hack, complete with a square "D" tail marking, and the given the name "Fools Rush In", which was the name given to a 100th BG B-17.
G-ELMH 42-84555 EP-H North American Aviation AT-6D Harvard III (T6 Texan)
Maurice Hammond's T6 Harvard - "Fools Rush In" at the Seething Airfield Charity Air Day 2010.
This aircraft was built in1944 as one of 22 examples built for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, and left Newark for the UK in May 1944. Arriving in July at 46MU at Lossiemouth she was allocated the serial number EZ341, and after serving with a number of units was struck off charge in 1956 and sold to the Portuguese Air Force where she served until 1973.
After a period in storage, she was transferred to the Portuguese Air Force Museum in Alverca before being shipped back to the UK in 1991. She was acquired by Maurice Hammond in 1992, and after a two year restoration project, she took to the air again in 1994 as G-ELMH. She currently wears the markings of a 100th Bomb Group hack, complete with a square "D" tail marking, and the given the name "Fools Rush In", which was the name given to a 100th BG B-17.