Slingsby Skylarks....

On Dec 2, 7:15*am, George Ballantyne
wrote:
Hi folks,
Would appreciate very much if anyone out there could send me pictures,
information, histories, etc, of any of the Skylarks that may or may not be
out there still. Any snippets or anecdotes too! My 'old bird' (the
glider, not the wife!) is still going strong, I hope there are still a few
of Fred Slingsby's creation still airborne.
Cheers,
G. Ballantyne.


By chance, I found a Skylark currently advertised on Craigslist in
California. The advertisement has pictures and the sailplane has a
rather big trailer. If it were not so far away, I would be very
interested in it. For the price, it looks pretty good. You can search
Craigslist in Orange County for the ad. For those interested, I copied
the ad below: (Please note that this is not my advertisement nor do I
know the individual selling it. Therefore, I left the phone number off
the copy below but it can be found on Craigslist along with the
pictures.)

Slingsby T.43 Skylark 3 Sailplane with trailer $5000

1957 Skylark 3d Sailplane complete with trailer.

Good condition but needs some minor work. Trailer just had new paint
job and is also in good shape.

Glider and trailer are located in Wildomar, CA. Interested parties
only. Thanks!

For Slingsby gliders in the USA, try the FAA registry site
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinqu...ef_inquiry.asp

Insert Slingsby in the Manufacturer Name box and you get a summary of
all Slingsby gliders in the US. You can select individual entries for
more info.

I know it doesn't give info on condition or such, but it indicates it is
still in the system and may be viable. I have extracted names and
addresses from it to use for postal-mail invitations for our regional
Vintage Sailplane Meet.

...... Neal

George Ballantyne wrote:

Hi folks,
Would appreciate very much if anyone out there could send me pictures,
information, histories, etc, of any of the Skylarks that may or may not be
out there still. Any snippets or anecdotes too! My 'old bird' (the
glider, not the wife!) is still going strong, I hope there are still a few
of Fred Slingsby's creation still airborne.
Cheers,
G. Ballantyne.

In message , Neal Pfeiffer
writes
For Slingsby gliders in the USA, try the FAA registry site
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinqu...ef_inquiry.asp

Insert Slingsby in the Manufacturer Name box and you get a summary of
all Slingsby gliders in the US. You can select individual entries for
more info.

I know it doesn't give info on condition or such, but it indicates it
is still in the system and may be viable. I have extracted names and
addresses from it to use for postal-mail invitations for our regional
Vintage Sailplane Meet.

You should do the same think in the UK with the CAA's G-INFO database:
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.asp...pid=1&mode =s
earch

However I thought the Lark was a T43 and there aren't any in it - were
they exempt from the EASA transition? There is a T21 registered, though
not the one at our club (the one the OP and I fly at).

--
Surfer!
Email to: ramwater at uk2 dot net

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:59:34 +0000, Surfer! wrote:

You should do the same think in the UK with the CAA's G-INFO database:
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?
catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=s
earch

Its not that good. Take model and variant attributions shown on it with a
grain of salt. Last time I looked, there were no Pegase 90s on it, only
101s. One that I KNOW is a 90 is recorded as a 101 and I suspect there
are others like this.


--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

On 3 Dec, 07:59, Surfer! wrote:

However I thought the Lark was a T43 and there aren't any in it - were
they exempt from the EASA transition?

Yup. All Slingsby models up to and including T50 are Annex II. See
page 39 of

http://www.easa.europa.eu/ws_prod/c/...5-Feb-2008.pdf

Ian

I have documentation on my website of the Merlin written by Martin
Simons. This was a development of the Skylark 2 and never appeared in
his range of books

http://www.scalesoaring.co.uk/VINTAG...in/Merlin.html

The Nottingham University Gliding Club (based at RAF Cranwell, England) has
a Skylark 2, which was donated to us in 2007:

http://www.nugc.net/about-club/club-fleet/

This picture was taken at Lasham during the 2008 Inter-University Task
Week:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...NYlOp3or7x--eg

(Trigraph 'CCS', BGA registration number 1441)

On Dec 2, 5:28*pm, Neal Pfeiffer wrote:
For Slingsby gliders in the USA, try the FAA registry sitehttp://registry..faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/acftref_inquiry.asp

Insert Slingsby in the Manufacturer Name box and you get a summary of
all Slingsby gliders in the US. *You can select individual entries for
more info.

I know it doesn't give info on condition or such, but it indicates it is
still in the system and may be viable. *I have extracted names and
addresses from it to use for postal-mail invitations for our regional
Vintage Sailplane Meet.

..... Neal


Not all Slingsby's in the US are on the FAA database. For example, the
one on craigslist is sporting an N number that's currently assigned to
a new C172R so it's apparently been removed from the FAA registry at
some point. There are two T.43F's listed. Cached version of the
Skylark 3 page from Nov 14, 2008 says canceled in the remarks. Today
it says 'Extant in USA'. SN 1092.

Frank Whiteley

On 2 Dec 2008 13:15:02 GMT, George Ballantyne
wrote:

Hi folks,
Would appreciate very much if anyone out there could send me pictures,
information, histories, etc, of any of the Skylarks that may or may not be
out there still. Any snippets or anecdotes too! My 'old bird' (the
glider, not the wife!) is still going strong, I hope there are still a few
of Fred Slingsby's creation still airborne.
Cheers,
G. Ballantyne.


Dick Johnson's 2-time US National's winnning Skylark 4 ('63 & '64) is
still putting in 5 hr+ flights at Texas Soaring Association for its
current owner, who has been flying it for the past 30 years.

Bob

On Dec 2, 1:15*pm, George Ballantyne
wrote:
Hi folks,
Would appreciate very much if anyone out there could send me pictures,
information, histories, etc, of any of the Skylarks that may or may not be
out there still. Any snippets or anecdotes too! My 'old bird' (the
glider, not the wife!) is still going strong, I hope there are still a few
of Fred Slingsby's creation still airborne.
Cheers,
G. Ballantyne.


Email sent... Let me know if you don't get it.

Colin Field, half-owner of Skylark 3 BGA 742 'AXL'