Dates

Event

Constructed as a M18-Mk 2.

15 July 1978

Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: On display at the 1978 Strathallan Collection Open Day.

23 March 1983

To The Scottish Aircraft Collection Trust Ltd, Newhall Port, Gifford, Haddington, East Lothian, Addressee Status: Gone Away with new c/r G-AHKY (MILES M18 MK.II, 4426).

19 March 1992

Civil registration, G-AHKY, cancelled.

To National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland.
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9 October 2013

Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: The Miles M.18 Mk.2 had the fin and rudder moved forward by 22 in and was fitted with a 150 h.p. Blackburn Cirrus Major III. The sole example first flew at Woodley in November 1939. It was evaluated by the Air Ministry as a possible replacement for the Miles Magister.According to test pilots, it handled better than the Magister, was impossible to spin and flew well at night. However the Mk.2 was regarded as lacking robustness.The Mk.2 was used through the Second World War as a communications aircraft by Miles Aircraft. It was civilianised as G-AHKY and won the Goodyear Trophy air race in 1956 at 130 mph and the Kings Cup Air Race in 1961 at 142 mph.After ownership by several private pilots, it was retired in 1989 and from 1996 to date, the aircraft has been on display at the National Museum of Flight in Scotland.