Contact name: Richard Zurinsky
P.O. Box 922
Olalla
WA 98359
USA
Tel: +1 253 853 3797
Fax: +1 253 853 3797
Email: rzurinsky@aol.com
Website: None
Description:
Richard Zurinsky is an FAA licensed engineer with substantial experience of Gipsy Major engine overhaul, including full overhaul, top overhaul, component repair and machining.
Contact name: Warwick Woinarski
2 Kunyam Street,
Kippa Ring
Queensland 4021
Australia
Tel: +61 7 3204 1933
Fax: +61 7 3204 1932
Mobile (cell): 0417 727 660
Email: antiqueairways@bigpond.com
Website: http://www.joy-flights.net
Description:
Founded in 1996, Antique Airways is a joyriding company based at Redcliffe Airport, near Brisbane. It is CASA certified for class B maintenance and engine components, and welcomes Gipsy Major maintenance work
Contact name: 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
Website: http://www.atn-aircraft-division.com
Description:
Specialist piston engine workshop. Experience in Gipsy engines. 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).
Contact name: Mark Bird
The Alvis Works,
Bubbenhall Road,
Baginton, Coventry,
CV8 3BB
England
Tel: +44 2476 305 873
Fax: +44 2476 302 08
Email: admin@cfsaero.com
Website: http://www.cfsaero.com
Description:
CFS Aeroproducts, once a subsidiary of vintage transport fleet operator Air Atlantique, is now an independent company. It repairs and overhauls the DH Gipsy Major, Queen II and III and Queen 30 & 70 engines.
Contact name: Paul Groves
31 Russell Road,
Lee-on-Solent,
Hampshire PO13 9HR.
England
Tel: +44 2392 551 870
Fax: 07958 240 890
Email: grovesmoth@aol.com
Website: None
Description:
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
Contact name: Neil Davidson
2135 St. Mary Lake Road,
Kimberley,
British Columbia V1A 3K4,
Canada
Tel: +1 250 427 7178
Fax: +1 250 427 7678
Email: peggneil@xplornet.com
Website: None
Description:
Davidson Aeroworks has a Transport Canada Non Specialised approval for the overhaul of the Gipsy Major engines.
Contact name: Dave McEwan
17, Aston Road,
Waterlooville,
Hants PO7 7XG,
England
Tel: +44 239 225 5255
Fax: +44 239 225 5534
Email: davemcewan@deltair.co.uk
Website: http://www.deltair-aerospace.co.uk
Description:
Deltair Aerospace, formerly Deltair Airmotive, has the CAA TRA for safety for the de Havilland Gipsy series engines and offers a full overhaul and testing service, including the original oil control ring modification. Training courses on Gipsy engines are also available.
Contact name: Adrian Wilkes
Mawney Road Junction,
Eastern Avenue, Romford,
Essex, RM7 7NS,
England
Tel: +44 1708 740 668 or 743 331
Fax: +44 1708 733266
Email: sales@gosnays.co.uk
Website: http://www.gosnays.co.uk
Description:
A long-established precision engineering company with a long record of providing services for vintage engines including aircraft, Gosnay’s offers white metal bearing renewal, crankshaft grinding, line boring, valve seat insertion and many other related services.
Contact name: Stan & Sheila Vander Ploeg
11450 27th Sideroad,
Grand Valley,
Ontario L9W 6V2,
Canada
Tel: +1 519 928 3215
Email: gv.aircraft@gmail.com
Website: None
Description:
GV Aircraft is based on its own strip (CGV3) near Grand Valley, Ontario, and undertakes regular maintenance on four Tiger Moths (11.12)
Contact name: Michael Payne
2 Regal Lane,
Soham,
Cambridgeshire CB7 5BA,
England
Tel: +44 1353 720 531
Fax: +44 1353 727 661
Email: sales@ivorsearle.co.uk
Website: www.ivorsearle.co.uk
Description:
Reconditioning of engines, including for older designs and related services, but also
crankshaft crack testing & cleaning
Contact name: Matt Webber
Luskintyre Airfield,
252 Pywells Road,
Luskintyre,
Lochinvar, NSW 2321,
Australia
Tel: +61 2 4930 6221
Fax: +44 1328 830 232
Mobile (cell): +61 408 422 805
Email: matt@aircraftrestoration.com.au
Website: http://aircraftrestoration.com.au
Description:
Luskintyre Aircraft Restorations, once Windair and based on the private airfield of Luskintyre, continues a 40-year tradition as a major restorer and repairer of de Havilland aircraft, including overhaul services for Gipsy major engines.
Contact name: Mat Voight
1225 Jackson Court,
Beaumont, CA 92223,
United States of America
Tel: +1 909 499 4686
Email: algualvi@hotmail.com
Description:
Based at Palm Springs Airport, California, qualified engineer Matt Voight is responsible for the maintenance of the Palm Springs Air Museum’s collection of airworthy WW2 aircraft. He is also known for looking after Chipmunks and Tiger Moths
Contact name: Nick and Greg Challinor
The Airfield,
Murwillumbah,
New South Wales 2484,
Australia
Tel: +61 2 6672 1592
Fax: +61 2 6672 1592
Mobile (cell): +61 408 422 805
Email: nick.irene@bigpond.com
Alternate email: challinor@qld.chariot.net.au
Website: None
Description:
Mothcair has thirty years of experience restoring aeroplanes, and the list of credits is long: B.A.Eagle, Fairchild Argus, J3 Cub, Austers, a Stampe, two Percival Gulls (most people have never even seen two Percival Gulls!), a Ryan STA, a DH84 Dragon, and many, many Tiger Moths. In process are (2005) a Gipsy Moth, a Fox Moth and a Leopard Moth
Contact name: Paul Lipman
Long Acre,
East Hill Road,
East Hill,
Nr Otford,
Kent TN15 6YD
England
Tel: 01959 523186
Email: PGLipman@aol.com
Contact name: Guy Black
Unit 11,
Wheel Farm Business Park,
Wheel Lane, Westfield,
Nr Hastings, East Sussex,
TN35 4SE,
England
Tel: +44 1424 755 898
Fax: +44 1424 754 414
Email: info@retrotec-ltd.co.uk
Website: http://www.retrotec-ltd.co.uk/
Description:
Retrotec, the well known restorer of pre-1940 aircraft, is already known for its restorations of extremely rare engines such as the Siddeley Puma fitted to the DH9 and the Rolls Royce Kestrel. This activity is being extended to include specialist historic car and military vehicle engines.
Contact name: David Henry, Managing Director; Tony Wytenburg, Workshop Manager
17 Park Terrace,
P.O. Box 968,
Blenheim 7240,
Marlborough,
New Zealand
Tel: +64 3 577 5870
Fax: +64 3 577 9870
Email: info@rigtec.co.nz
Website: http://www.rigtec.co.nz
Description:
Rigtec changed ownership in 2019 but the old team continues to offer the same services as before. Specialties include one off aircraft component machining.
Contact name: Robert Still
147 Commercial Drive,
Thomasville, NC27360,
United States of America
Tel: +1 336 476 9094
Email: southernaero@northstate.net
Website: http://www.southernaero.com
Description:
Southern aero is a specialist in Franklin engine overhauls and repair, but also has some experience with the Gipsy Major 10.
Units 1 – 4 Alston Road
Portway Industrial Estate,
Oldbury, West Midlands
B69 2PP England
Tel: +44 121 544 5808
Fax: +44 121544 4188
Email: sales@stephensgaskets.co.uk
Website: www.stephensgaskets.co.uk
Description:
Spring and stainless steel, brass, steel, aluminium, copper and plastic joints, shims, exhaust gaskets, gaskets and related items. Used to supplying classic/vintage car and motorbike clubs and sometimes aircraft restorers!
Contact name: Paul Sharman, Director
Fullers Hill,
Little Gransden Airfield,
Sandy,
Bedfordshire, SG19 3BP,
England
Tel: +44 1767 651 794
Fax: +44 1767 651 794
Email: mail@vintech.aero
Website: None
Description:
Vintage Engine Technology has become a byword for excellence in the reconstruction of Gipsy series engines – and many others. After the retirement in 2017 of founder Mike Vaisey, Paul Sharman, long time Director of the company, has taken the lead role.
