Caribou at Coventry circa 1995

[HeyfordDave111]

Hi guys,

In the mid 90's i heard a drone over my house south of Banbury and 2 x Caribou aircraft flew over in lose formation heading north.
I got a very grainy shot of both in flight luckily, as even though i was at Coventry a few days later i never took my camera

However, is there a story behind this gathering of Spanish Caribou at Coventry as i'd love to know?
cheers
Dave

[RS2]

Don't remember the reason but remember the aircraft, went up the bank behind the rugby club to photograph them.

Seem to think there may have been more than a pair over time ?

[HeyfordDave111]

hi mate,
my memory may be playing tricks ,but i seem to remember 5 of them parked up.
plus the B25 over the far side of the field.

[Andover]

They were on a stop over, ultimately on their way to the states to be re-engined to turboprops. One is featured in an Avion DVD that I have.

[ArabJazzie]

They were on a stop over, ultimately on their way to the states to be re-engined to turboprops. One is featured in an Avion DVD that I have.

Family holiday 2015 had us flying JFK-Orlando with me obviously taking a pic of anything that took my fancy. Seen as im on here, airfields were an obvious target, and reaching the lower reaches of New Jersey, i zoomed in to inspect a photo just taken which showed a number of strange looking aircraft packed in like sardines around a hangar. 25 airframes were eventually identified with some, maybe all of the Coventry machines in amongst them, but none converted to PT power.

Since then, i have caught one that did get converted, N238PT on a stop over at Aberdeen on its way home. Will dig out the pictures soon.
Arabest,
Geoff.

[Amp]

Geoff, that’ll be Cape May Airport right down on the point.

[ArabJazzie]

Geoff, that’ll be Cape May Airport right down on the point.

Yeh Amp, was supposed to put that in but forgot!