Sighted Grumman Widgon/Gosling

[alanw]

Hi All

Was waiting to pull into traffic on Lincoln Road (near Burger King),
West Auckland, when I spied an aircraft being towed on a flat bed trailer .

As it went by, I had an "O Boy" moment ;D ;D as I saw it was
a Grumman Gosling/Widgon.

Only the fuselage and wing stubs were there, sans engines and sitting on it's main undercart.

It was white with royal/dark blue pin stripe down the length
of fuselage, couldn't see any registration (that I could note).

Anyone on the forum know anything about this?

I was kicking myself that I didn't have a camera

Thanks/regards

Alan

[aeromuzz]

The paintwork sounds like Vintage & Aquatic Airways livery so that would suggest it is ZK-AVM or ZK-CFA.
I would guess that it was a stripped down AVM that had been taken away from Avspecs for some work.
The last I heard of CFA is that it is still stored at Whitford. Is that still the case?