What is this plane? #19

[howardwhite 6]

This one was sent to me in a PM from someone who apparently wants me to have the glory of posting yet another really obscure one.
The registration info has been crudely obscured because this plane seems still to be registered; I've found at least one other picture of it.
The contributor knows (obviously) where he got the picture, but not much more about the details. But he also sent me another which is, if anything, even more obscure.
I suspect someone will recognize this one, if only from the same source, but it would be interesting to have more detail.
Probably not the best platform for a static line, but whatever...

HW

[mccurley 1]

De Haviland T-10 Chipmunk?

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[howardwhite 6]

i think it would be tough to fit three people in a Chipmunk.

HW

[mccurley 1]

Ah come on!! Skydivers are friendly people.
He could have been sitting on the jump master's lap.
Been up in more them one aircraft that way myself.

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[Zing 2]

Its not a Chipmunk. This airplane is a tad bigger.

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[riggerrob 643]

It's a Percival Prentice trainer.

The first Prentice flew in 1946. Prentices trained RAF pilots from 1947 to 1953.

While it competed directly with DHC-1 Chipmunk, the Prentice differed in having two seats side-by-side.
The only thing a Prentice shares with a DeHavilland of Canada Chipmunk is a DeHavilland inline engine.

[howardwhite 6]

Correct. Apparently about 300 were built; this one may still be airworthy. It is similar to the Chipmunk, but look at, e.g., the wheel struts. There's at least one in the U.S., apparently, at Oxnard, CA.

So, from the same source, here's another. This one is a conversion. What is it and what was it converted from?
I found a picture of another of these used on a demo jump as recently as 2006, as well as another picture of this plane on the ground at a DZ.

HW

[stratostar 5]

Looks to b a tiger moth with some sort of canopy on it.

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[riggerrob 643]

That is a Thruxton Jackaroo.
Basically it is Tiger Moth wings, tail, etc. mated to a new, four-seater fuselage.
DeHavilland of Britain built a handful before World War 2, but most were conversions - done in Australia from war-surplus parts.
There are only three airworthy Jackaroos left: one in Britain, one in Australia and an original (pre-war) in Canada.

[gjhdiver 0]

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De Haviland T-10 Chipmunk?

I loved the Chipmunk. First powered plane I ever learned to fly in when I was an RAF cadet a million years ago.

That ain't one of them BTW.

[howardwhite 6]

Right, again.
Do you have the book (published by BPA, I think) from which these were scanned?
The picture was almost certainly taken at Thruxton DZ (UK), as was the attached.

HW

[JSBIRD 1]

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That is a Thruxton Jackaroo.
Basically it is Tiger Moth wings, tail, etc. mated to a new, four-seater fuselage.
DeHavilland of Britain built a handful before World War 2, but most were conversions - done in Australia from war-surplus parts.
There are only three airworthy Jackaroos left: one in Britain, one in Australia and an original (pre-war) in Canada.

OK Rob, time to put your copy of Jane's away.

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