Just out of interest, I thought I’d see what I could find out about the Cyclone AX3. I found a database that shows that between 1992 and 1996, a total of 38 Cyclone AX3\/503s were built in the UK. In fact the number is undoubtedly more as there are gaps in the serial numbers listed. There are 36 Cyclone AX3\/503s in the ‘active’ G-INFO database although that number includes G-MYME which we know for sure has now been destroyed. There are 4 AX3\/503s in the de-registered G-INFO database, which now brings the total manufactured to at least 40. Incidentally, G-MYMF and G-MYFY are both in the de-registered list although pics of them still appear in the Gallery. There are also a few AX3\/582s with the larger water-cooled Rotax engine, but I’ve ignored those as really they are a different model.<\/p>\n
The last AX3\/503 appears to be S\/No 7253 G-MZDS. That’s interesting – so it’s no surprise that Rosie’s new steed, G-MZEL is still looking so fresh, as it’s S\/No 7250, one of the last built.<\/p>\n
G-MYRO came along in 1994, in about the middle of the series, so by then any bugs in the design had been ironed out. It was also nearly the last in the old serial number range, being S\/No C4043211. The highest old serial that I found was C4043215, G-MYSO.<\/p>\n
G-MYSO was put up for sale recently on Ebay by Nic Stoneman. Unfortunately it had been through a few trials in recent times. Nic had pegged it out over at least one very wet Welsh winter and the pics he sent me showed a very wet cockpit interior. The tie-down ropes had also chafed very badly and caused quite a lot of damage to the edges of the wings and control surfaces and Nic also mentioned to me that the last time he flew it, he had had a rather heavy landing. None of these would be a bar to getting MYSO back in the air and I’m sure the new owner has done so, or is working towards that aim, but the work involved was a bit too much for me at the time.<\/p>\n
I’ve tried to get together as many pics of these AX3s as I could find and they are now all in their own Photo Gallery<\/a> which you can see by clicking on the link or by going to the Galleries page and choosing Other AX3s. The registrations of all of the aircraft are pretty clear, except for the first one in the Gallery, which I think is MYFI that was owned by Medway Air Sports (same aircraft as in second shot – they also flew MYFV but that I think had different colours) and the last two which are my own shots of Rosie’s G-MZEL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just out of interest, I thought I’d see what I could find out about the Cyclone AX3. I found a database that shows that between 1992 and 1996, a total of 38 Cyclone AX3\/503s were built in the UK. In fact the number is undoubtedly more as there are gaps in the serial numbers listed. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}