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THE STRIKEMASTER DISPLAY TEAMS |
The Strikemaster, unlike its Jet Provost cousin was not employed very frequently by display teams during its military career. Most of its display work began when the aeroplanes entered private ownership, please see below for further details. If you have any information and/or images of Strikemaster display teams that existed, and would like to see them listed on this site please get in touch. |
UK Strikemaster solo display items
Tom Moloney (1999-2003) (2009-present) Following the demise of the Strikemaster duo, Tom Moloney moved his aeroplane (G-UNNY) to Duxford where it was maintained by the Aircraft Restoration Company and operated as a solo performer on the display circuit. A small yet agile aeroplane, it proved a very popular act and was booked for numerous shows between 1999 and 2003, when G-UNNY was retired and replaced by Tom's new mount, an ex-Royal Saudi Arabia Air Force Mk.80A Strikemaster. This aeroplane had been restored at Duxford, and was originally registered as G-CBPB, before taking up the more-unusual registration G-UPPI. Throughout the proceeding five years, Tom acquired and subsequently sold on two further Strikemasters before acquiring his fifth overall aeroplane in February 2008. Registered G-CFBK, the aeroplane was moved to North Weald for a thorough restoration and flew for the first time in May 2009, resplendent in Kuwaiti Air Force markings. During the subsequent season Tom appeared at several display venues, including Kemble, Shoreham and Rougham. |
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Overseas Strikemaster solo display items
Strikemaster ZU-PER (South Africa - 1999-present) In 1998, Ralph Garlick acquired Strikemaster Mk.83 OJ6 and registered it G-BXFR for its ferry flight to its new home at Cape Town, South African. Flown to its new home by Ralph and prominent UK warbird pilot Mark Linney later that year, the aeroplane was registered ZU-PER and was housed with the Thunder City collection. It was refinished in overall black paint, the house colours of Thunder City and has been present on the airshow circuit ever since. Strikemaster ZU-JAK (South Africa - 2006-07) Gerald Williams began to make his mark on the UK airshow circuit in 2003, making his display debut at Kemble in his Jet Provost Mk.5A G-JPTV. The following year, he acquired Tom Moloney's aeroplane G-UPPI and following dismantlement by NWMAS (North Wales Military Aviation Services) engineers at Hawarden, it was shipped by sea to Cape Town, arriving in November 2005. Registered ZU-JAK, the aeroplane was completely rebuilt by the Aviation Business Centre, and on completion of the project was completely re-finished into a desert camouflage. It was test-flown on 6th June 2006, and had arrived at its new home in Durban by the end of that month where it began a busy period on the display circuit. In 2008, Gerald returned to the UK and G-UPPI was shipped back and sold to a new owner based in the UK. |
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