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10, 2000
Cirrus No. 38 CFK (UK) (BGA 1506) Currently Owned by: Charles and Mike Webb, Peter Gill STATUS: In Service LOCATION: Shropshire Soaring Club,
Peter Gill has been part owner of Open Cirrus 38 (BGA 1506 call sign CFK) since 1987. His partners are father and son - Charles and Mike Webb. Charles' first glider flight was a solo in 1943 and he is still flying solo and cross-country at the age of 74. They bought the Cirrus after it had been rebuilt following an accident in the mid-70's and then lying broken in a workshop for several years. It has one replacement VTC wing - several pounds heavier than the Schempp-Hirth wing. This is hardly apparent in flight and at least you know which one will go down at the end of the landing run! CFK glides and soars as well as ever - it has carried Peter round thirteen 300Km flights and one 500km - all in our indifferent English weather. It also flies well in wave - Sleap being 15 miles from the 3000' Welsh hills. It has carried me above 10,000' on over twenty flights. CFK has probably flown around 1800 hours in the
last 12 years - very much more than it flew in its first life before the
accident.
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