Posted Saturday, July 20, 2019 @ 05:24 AM
Four Fournier RF6Bs were imported into Britain over the years. Two came in together, and this is the story of G-BKIF, formerly F-GADR built in 1976, initially as recounted to Tim Fray by his father, G-BKIF's original joint importer, Robert Fray:
'Back in 1984 my dad, Robert Fray, Graham Milton, and Ray Combine went to Orange in France by train to bring back these two RF6Bs that Graham had bought from a club close to there. Whilst they were over there they all got French licences so that they could fly them in Britain for a while on the French register without having to re-register them.
On the way back from Orange the weather was quite bad so they stopped at Beaune. Then the weather cleared and they managed to get home.'
This photograph of it was taken at Cranfield in 1984 by Dave Mangham.
'Graham kept G-BKIF at Ray Combine’s strip at Kimbolton which is no longer there.
Dad and Graham bought them as part of a partnership agreement which broke up a few years later, and when the partnership split up they split the planes so dad had G-BLWH and Graham had G-BKIF.' Graham Milton owned it until 2001.
Between 2001 and 2006 it was owned by messrs Taylor & Flint.
Briefly throughout 2006 it was owned by Anthony Massey of Ross-on-Wye.
Then, for twelve years from December 2006 until February 2018 it was owned and operated by Tiger Airways at Staverton Airport near Gloucester before being bought by Martin Pamphillon who still keeps it there.
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