Pipers at the Gates of Dawn - 2 July 2020

Well, I have taken a bit of a liberty with the title which, in any case, will mean nothing to some of my viewers but amuses me. It was, of course, not exactly dawn but it was early in the morning at Solent Airport and there was a little bit of shunting going on around Bournemouth Avionics leaving on the tarmac two aircraft I have not photographed before. In a less than classic photograph, I have manged to obscure both registrations. The truth is, I moved for my last shot but found, on editing, that I had inadvertently cropped the original image.

Piper PA-28-201T Turbo Dakota G-BOKA stands with PA-32-300 Cherokee Six G-GSIX. The background is interesting in its own right. The Trislander G-RLON is still on the west side of the airport and deserves its hoped for spot at Solent Sky Museum. It will almost certainly survive but the chimney of Fawley Power Station, seen above IX, will not and is due for demolition later this year thus appearing in no more photographs.

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