Happy 70th to the DH112 Venom

[Venomnut]

Today the DH112 celebrates its 70th birthday with the prototype VV612 having made its first flight on the 2nd of September 1949.


Whilst there are many examples in museums throughout the world on static display, there is only one example currently in airworthy condition and that is J-1630/ZK-VNM.


Airworthy examples have declined in the last few years including the familiar UK residents


J-1542 (ex-G-DHVM) now in taxiable condition at Bruntingthorpe and


J-1614 (ex-G-VENM) which is disassembled at Coventry awaiting export.


On the up side,


J-1643/HB-RVY is with the museum at Altenrhein in Switzerland, it’s nearing completion and will hopefully be in the air soon and


Sea Venom WZ944/N7022H is with Forgotten Warbirds in Utah is actively being worked on to return it to the air.


So if you happen to see ZK-VNM around the airshow circuit, consider yourself lucky. 

There are more Mosquitos than Venoms airworthy at the moment, who in the late 1990's would've thought that would happen!??

[Dave Homewood]

Wow that is pretty amazing and somewhat sad that the New Zealand example is the only one flying currently. Happy birthday Venoms, terrific aircraft.

[isc]

Are there any single seat Vampires still flying? isc

[Venomnut]

Sept 3, 2019 23:44:46 GMT 12 isc said:

Are there any single seat Vampires still flying? isc

I think there's only a couple flying. One in the Norwegian Air Force Historic flight that displays with a two seater and one in Switzerland in private ownership with Eric Chardonnens which is J-1197/HB-RVN. A couple of projects on the go as well in different countries.

[isc]

Thanks Venomnut, didn't think there would be that many, even one would be good.
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