January 25-27
Traveled to Teuge, Netherlands accompanied by Mick Bevan (engineer). The purpose of the visit was to inspect a Piper Cherokee Six aircraft for possible purchase from Peter De Graff. The aircraft's Dutch registration is PH-SMD. Much time was spent reviewing the history of SMD and all logs and maintenance records were found to be in order. Mick made a through inspection of the airframe and engine and passed her fit for the goals of WF2003. We were joined by Keith Tomlin, who is acting as broker for the sale. SMD was demonstrated in flight and found to be most enjoyable to fly. Other flying this weekend took place in De Havilland Chipmunks. The weather didn't allow for aerobatics we did get to do some close formation flying. Peter's other passion in life apart from flying is penguins. Mick captured both in this doodle titled 'Penguins prefer real airplanes.