The Moth Service Register
23. FABRIC (Applicators)

Aero Antiques,
(Ron Souch),
Durley Airstrip,
Hill Farm,
Netherhill Lane, Durley,
Nr. Southampton, Hampshire,
SO32 4BP,
England
Tel/Fax: +44 1489 789 829
Email: ronsouchaero@yahoo.co.uk
(Extensive experience of restoring thirties aeroplanes including many Moth types)

ATN Revisie (Aircraft Division)
(Jac van Egmond)
Plesmanstraat 10,
7903 BE Hoogeveen,
Netherlands
Tel: +31 528 237 132
Fax: +31 528 240 858
Email: info@atn-aircraft-division.com
(ATN is EASA-PART-145 Certified (N°.DE.145.0116) and has a specialist antique aircraft restoration unit. Moth Club members invited for coffee at ATN’s premises on Hoogeveen airfield (EHHO))

B.B.A.E.S.,
(Ben Borsberry)
24 Woodlands Road,
Sonning Common,
Nr. Reading,
Berkshire RG4 9TE.
Telephone/Fax: 0118 9 723583

Matthew Boddington,
The Jetstream Hangar,
Sywell Aerodrome,
Sywell, Northants, NN6 0BN,
England
Tel/Fax: +44 1604 491 512
Mobile: 07973 459 505
Email: matthew@theboddingtons.co.uk
(A new business founded by Matthew Boddington, already known for his work on fabric covered aircraft. Moths, Cubs and Stearmans are the speciality)

Roger Burrows Aviation,
(Roger Burrows)
2 Linmore Court,
Thexton Road Industrial estate,
Watton,
Norfolk, IP25 6NG,
England
Tel: +44 1953 880 900
Portable: 0780 1736 675
Email: Roger.burrows@btinternet.com
(Roger Burrows Aviation specialises in wood and fabric aircraft repair and reconstruction.  Roger Burrows himself is also a PFA inspector)

Cirrus Aviation Services Ltd.,
(Hugh Jones),
4 The Street,
Swanton Abbott, Norwich,
NR10 5DU,
England
Tel/Fax: +44 1692 538 160
Email: hugh@swantonabott.com
(Well known in Auster circles, Cirrus Aviation also has Moth experience)

Classique Aéro Service,
(Patrick Siegwald),
Aérodrome d’Orbigny,
Les Pallis,
37460 Orbigny,
France
Tel: +33 2 47 94 20 52
Email: classiqueaeroservice@free.fr
Specialist in the restoration and major maintenance of antique aircraft, essentially aircraft of the twenties and thirties. Major restorations of Stampe, Potez, Albert, Morane, etc.  Some Tiger Moth experience. (Spécialiste dans le grand entretien et restauration d’aéronefs anciens, essentiellement des avions d’entre guerres. Restaurations majeures incluent des Stampe, Potez, Albert, Morane, etc.  Quelques expériences avec les Tiger Moth.)

Crofton Aero Services,
(Paul Groves),
31 Russell Road,
Lee-on-Solent,
Hampshire PO13 9HR.
England
Tel : 44 2392 551 870
Mobile : 07958 240 890
Email : grovesmoth@aol.com
(Crofton Aero Services specialises in restoration and repair, overhaul and product support of vintage aircraft and has extensive experience of Moths and the Gipsy Major engine)

Cubair Engineering Services,
(Brett Paris or Daryl Taplin)
Hangar N°8, Redhill Aerodrome,
Kings Mill lane,
Redhill, Surrey, RH1 5JY,
England
Tel: +44 1737 822 212
Email: daryl@cubair.co.uk
(Cubair (formerly Acebell Engineering) has longstanding DH maintenance experience and regularly does the component recovering work associated with its repair and maintenance services. Although a recovering service using natural fabrics is still available, most of the company’s recent experience is with Ceconite covered aircraft (2005))

John Day Restorations
(John Day)
Rushett Farm Airstrip,
Leatherhead Road,
Chessington, Surrey, KT9 2NH,
England
Tel: +44 7710 468 834
Email: jdayrest@tecres.net
(John Day specialises in smaller restoration jobs on the airframes of wood and fabric aircraft.  Will recover single components.  Has Moth experience)

Eastern Sailplanes Ltd.,
(Peter Johnson),
Office address:
Longacre, Bradfield St. Clare,
Bury St. Edmunds,
Suffolk, IP30 0EF
Workshop address:
The Blister Hangar,
Lavenham Lodge Farm,
Alpheton, Suffolk, CO10 9BT,
England
Tel/Fax: +44 1284 827 300
(Out of hours tel: +44 1284 827 399)
Email: peterrjohnson@btinternet.com
(After 22 years in the defence industry Peter Johnson founded Eastern Sailplanes in 2001 to focus on the repair of high performance sailplanes and glider tugs. The company began repairing Tiger Moths two years later, and is now completely reoriented towards the provision of vintage aircraft services, so far concentrating on the repair and maintenance of Tiger Moths. The company has new premises on a 650 metre strip at Lavenham and offers recovering services in both natural and synthetic fabrics)

Historic Flying Ltd.,
Duxford Airfield,
Cambridge,
CB2 4QR,
England
Tel:
Fax:
Email: Historic.flying@dial.pipex.com & spitfires@historic.flying.com

Hornet Aviation,
(David Fenton),
Cramond,
West End, Seaton Ross,
York, YO42 4NN,
England.
Tel/Fax: +44 1759 318 363
Email: hornetaviation@btinternet.com
(Hornet Aviation has been repairing light aircraft since the early 1970s and has completed a number of restorations of 30s and 40s aircraft and components for the RN Historic Flight (Fairey Swordfish) and other period aircraft)

Henry Labouchere,
Bluetile Farm House,
Field Dalling,
Holt,
Norfolk NR25 7AS.
England
Tel: +44 1328 830 003 or ‘431
Fax: +44 1328 830 232
Email: henrylab@lineone.net
(We specialise in all DH aircraft up to Rapide (no jets); Cessna 180/185 and bush aircraft (Maule, Piper Cub, etc.))

Luskintyre Aircraft Restorations
(Ray Windred, Matt Webber)
Luskintyre Airfield,
252 Pywells Road, Luskintyre,
Lochinvar, NSW 2321
Australia
Postal address:
P.O. Box 50, Lochinvar,
NSW 2321, Australia
Tel: +61 2 4930 6221
Fax: +61 2 4930 6231
Email: mattywebber@yahoo.com
Site: (under construction)
Luskintyre Aircraft Restorations was well known as Windair and is a major restorer and repairer of de Havilland aircraft. Based on the private airfield of Luskintyre, LAR continues a 30 year tradition of Tiger Moth maintenance and repair, including the fabric covering of wooden structures, most recently (2.11) on VH-LOW)

Newbury Aeroplane Co.,
(Jan Cooper),
Denford Manor,
Hungerford,
Berkshire, RG17 0UN.
Tel: +44 1488 682 949
Email: jan@newburyaeroplanecompany.co.uk
(Specialist in 1930s aeroplanes with substantial DH experience, available for advice and airframe components and repairs)

New Garden Aviation,
(Alexis I. du Pont)
P.O.Box 481,
Toughkenamon,
PA 19374-0481,
United States of America
Tel: +1 610 268 2048
Fax: +1 610 268 0342
Email: AlexisIduPont@cs.com

Old Sarum Engineering,
(John Pothecary).
Hangar 3,
Old Sarum Aerodrome,
Salisbury,
Wiltshire SP4 6BJ.
Tel: 01722 410711
Fax: 01722 323702

Personal Plane Services (PPS)
(Tom Woodhouse)
Wycombe Air Park,
Booker, Marlow, Bucks.,
SL7 3DS,
England
Tel: +44 1494 529 432
Fax: +44 1494 461 236
Email: pps_engineering@hotmail.com
(PPS salvaged many a DH from France in the 60s; more recently it has undertaken major repairs on a DH Dove and Tiger Moths G-AHVV & G-ANNG. PPS is known for war bird restoration, but has Bückers and Stampes to its credit too)

Raymond’s Aircraft Restoration,
(Raymond Cuypers),
Antwerp Airport,
B-2100 Deurne,
Belgium
Tel: +32 3 322 7522
Mobile: +32 495 548 850
Fax: +32 3 322 3358
Email: raymond.cuypers@rar.be
(Raymond Cuypers has been restoring classic and antique aircraft – and winning prizes - for 20 years, and set up his business at Antwerp in 2003. At the moment RAR offers recovering in synthetic fabric only)

Sky 4 Aviation,
(Mike King)
Branscombe Airfield,
Seaton, EX12 3BL
England
Tel: +44 1297 680 360
Email: mike@sky4aviation.co.uk
(Sky 4 Aviation has recovered Tiger Moths using both linen and synthetic fabrics and will be recovering major portions of a Dragon Rapide this year (G-AHAG). (3.09) The business has a certified engineer and operates under the wing of Southern Sailplanes for certification processes.)

Skysport Engineering Ltd.,
(Tim Moore)
Rotary Farm,
Thorncote Green,
Nr Hatch,
Sandy,
Bedfordshire SG19 1PU.
Tel: 01767 627375
Fax: 01767 627718
E-mail: skysporteng@aol.com
(Skyport has a 30 year track record in the restoration and major repair of Tiger Moths and many other vintage aeroplanes and also supplies a wide range of parts and services related to the restoration of Moth Club era aircraft)

Smith Tech Air,
(Stan Smith)
North Shore Airfield,
Postman Road,
RD4 Albany,
Auckland,
New Zealand.
Tel/Fax: +64 942 63735
Email: vintageaircraft@xtra.co.nz
(Smith Tech Air is associated with many thirties and forties aircraft projects, including an Avro Cadet, a Miles Gemini and a Messenger, a Proctor V and several Austers.  He has also restored de Havilland types DH82, DH83, DH84 (ZK-AXI) and DH94 (ZK-AKM). Smith Tech Air also offers a recovering service for whole aircraft or for components)

Stick & Rudder,
(Kevin Hopper),
P.O.Box 5310,
Krugersdorp West,
Krugersdorp 1742,
South Africa
Tel:+27 116 609 641
Fax: +27 116 605 908
Portable (Kevin Hopper): 082 346 0150
Portable (Stafan Naude): 083 539 8265
Email: kmvhop@icon.co.za
(One of three maintenance organisations operating under the umbrella of the Krugersdorp Flying Club, Stick and Rudder rebuilds Tiger Moth and Chipmunk aircraft with certified parts and a care for detail – five in the last two years, with a further six in process.  Two of these have won awards. Offers fabric work services)

Vintage Fabrics Ltd.,
(Clive & Linda Denney),
The Mitchell Hangar,
Audley End Airfield,
Saffron Walden,
Essex,
CB11 4LH,
England.
Tel: +44 1799 510 756
Mobile: 07710 809 763
Email: clive@vintagefabrics.co.uk
(Re-formed in 1997, Vintage Fabrics specialises in fabric recovers and special paint jobs for vintage aircraft. Vintage Fabrics has very substantial experience in using both synthetic and traditional fabrics and in applying both modern and traditional paint finishes. Several Moths are among the many aircraft the company has completed)
 


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