Sarah Pepper, PA to Guy Black of the Historic Aircraft Collection (HAC), reports that their Hawker Nimrod II (G-BURZ) completed its first post-restoration flight at Duxford on 16 November 2006. The uneventful flight lasted 20 minutes and the aircraft performed faultlessly.
    This original aircraft was discovered on a dump near Ashford, Kent, and is thought to have been damaged in extensive raids on nearby Lympne airfield where it was probably in use as an instructional airframe at the Fleet Air Arm Engineering School early in WW II.
    The restoration took some twelve years to complete and was described as challenging. The Nimrod II is a far more complex aircraft than the Nimrod I, an example of which (G-BWWK, exchanged with The Fighter Collection at Duxford for their Hurricane G-HURI)) was also restored by HAC's restoration arm, Retrotec Ltd.