Airfield and hangarage

The aircraft is operated from Seppe airfield, one of Hollands so-called green airfields. Seppe is situated 25 Nm due south of Rotterdam Airport, close to the Belgian border, along the motorway from Breda to Roosendaal. G-AJHS has been flying from this field since 1991, when the previous owners purchased the aircraft (based at North Weald) from Machine Music Ltd (alias Gary Numan). Since almost 600 hours have been flown, mostly over the south-west of Holland, but also on long crosscountries to Britain, France, Belgium and Germany.

G-AJHS, when not flying, lives in the hangar of Vliegend Museum Seppe, a organisation sheltering a vintage aircraft collection.  The aircraft shares the hangar with a Piper PA-18-95, a Piper J3C, an Auster Mk. 5, Gipsy Moth, a Hornet Moth, a Luscombe, a PT Ryan, a Bolkow Junior and another Tiger Moth.
At this moment a new facility has been built, more than three times the size of the previous hangar. As a result there is at this moment still space for additional vintage aircraft in this first class facility. Get an e-mail to us, if you want more information.

Flight operations
In principle the aircraft is operated all year round. However, there is always "preventive" maintenance, which is usually planned in the lesser months of the year (December – February). Reservations for the aircraft are made on a first come first serve basis.  Although the aircraft is used by eight partners, the availability or rather the lack of, has caused no inconvenience so far. Major events such as Woburn are coordinated through the flying group's newsletter.

Communications in the aircraft are through a radio-intercom system. Initially, the additonal gear, in the form of cloth helmets with H-type oxygen masks did the job well. As the equipment is frequently used, the cloth material was wearing quickly. So new standard headgear was acquired. Now we have got very nice leather helmets with fleece lining, fitted with good sound reducing earphones and a (dynamic) boom-mike. In fact, we purchased five, two for the aircraft and a further three for private use by some of the partners. If you are looking for something similar, go to Internet link btinternet.com/~swanton.morley and look for the services of Timeless.

Maintenance
The aircraft has been (and still is) maintained for a very long time by Geoff Masterton, also prominent member of the Technical Support Group of the de Havilland Moth Club. For us it means an annual trip to Rushett Farm in Surrey, which can usually be combined with a long weekend of leisure flying in south-east England. In addition we would not be able to operate as efficiently as we do without our technical advisor Aad Schenk, who has been around Tiger Moths for a great part of his life.
A sensible stock of parts is kept, apart from the boxes with bits and pieces which were recovered from all sorts of places over the past years. Also, we have trestles to jack up the aircraft, which is required from time to time.
Maintenance has been made a lot easier thanks to the support of the de Havilland Moth Club and knowledgable engineers as Geoff and Aad. Visit the  website of Geoff´s Light Aircraft Services!!! 

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top picture:         ....... overhead Seppe Airfield
middle picture:     a bunch of Flying Wires .....
bottom picture:     .... taking her ladyship for walkies.

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last page update 17-06-2000