JME Aviation closes down

Jeremy Moore's restoration company, JME Aviation, based at Martham, Norfolk has closed down. JME had been chosen by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen to restore several aircraft for his Flying Heritage Collection (FHC) at Paine Field, Washington State, USA. Two major projects that 42-year-old Moore and his team had been restoring to fly for Allen, Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-5 WNr 1227 and Messerschmitt Me 262 WNr 400453, were well advanced, but are now back in Seattle. Among the other FHC aircraft with JME are de Havilland Mosquito T.3 TV959 and a Casa 2111.


Flying Heritage Collection Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-5 WNr 1227 “White A” in the JME workshop in 2006. It was recovered from a forest near Leningrad in the early 1990s, and is now registered N19027. Photo: Ian Frimston/Sigma.

Also under restoration to fly for a British collector was Travel Air Mystery Ship NR613K, flown by aviatrix Pancho Barnes in the USA in the early 1930s. Moore started JME in the late 1980s, and had restored about ten aircraft.

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