'RAF Cosford plane identified' - Your Letters: March 28

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Published Mar 28

RAF Cosford held its show in June 1989 and included the Red Arrows, RAF Falcon free-falling parachuters, the Royal Navy, the United States Air Force, the RAF Police Dog unit and the Honda Imps motorcycle team. This photograph shows Bob Mitchell at the controls.

COSFORD AIRCRAFT IS IDENTIFIED

The picture of Bob Mitchell at the controls of an 'unidentified plane' at the RAF Cosford Air Show in 1989 (Star p11 March 24) shows a Fairchild PT 23, serial no N49272. At the time it was the only one in Europe. It went on to lead the PT Flight at a number of Air Shows, commemorating the training of many RAF aircrew in the USA during World War II.

It remains in Shropshire, although at the moment it is not airworthy.

Al McLean, Telford

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