Aircraft Photo of G-AOLK | Percival P.40 Prentice T1 | Alan Hilton Smith - AHS

Aircraft
Registration / Serial:	G-AOLK
Aircraft Original Type:	Percival P.40 Prentice
Aircraft Generic Type:	Percival P.40 Prentice
Aircraft Version:	Percival P.40 Prentice T1
C/n (msn):	PAC/225
Operator Titles:	Alan Hilton Smith - AHS

Location
City / Airport:	SouthendMap
Region / Country:	England, United Kingdom
Airport Codes:	ICAO: EGMC IATA: SEN Local: - Other: -

Photo Date:	January 1976
Photo by:	Richard Vandervord
Photo ID:	20325

Photo Comment
This 1949 aircraft, formerly VS618, was one of the 252 RAF-surplus Prentices bought up by Freddie Laker and ferried to his company ATEL at Southend and Stansted for conversion as 5-seater GA tourers. Despite a price tag of just £1500, only 28 were civilianised and the rest were scrapped. Since 1964 this one was owned by Alan Hilton Smith (AHS). Seen here on a winter's day being readied for flight with a departing Luftwaffe Transall incongrously framed by the mortal remains of ex-Merpati Vanguard G-BAMX This photo was added on 20 November 2017, and has since been viewed 276 times.

Photo Comment

This 1949 aircraft, formerly VS618, was one of the 252 RAF-surplus Prentices bought up by Freddie Laker and ferried to his company ATEL at Southend and Stansted for conversion as 5-seater GA tourers. Despite a price tag of just £1500, only 28 were civilianised and the rest were scrapped. Since 1964 this one was owned by Alan Hilton Smith (AHS). Seen here on a winter's day being readied for flight with a departing Luftwaffe Transall incongrously framed by the mortal remains of ex-Merpati Vanguard G-BAMX

This photo was added on 20 November 2017, and has since been viewed 276 times.

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