one trial aircraft was so fitted, because the all-metal Prentice was being developed to replace the Proctor, using the Queen 30 etc.

The Prentice proved to be a very poor aircraft, even worse than the later Proctors, and they served in the RAF for only a handful of years before being withdrawn. Combining the Vega's good qualities in range, speed, load capacity and wing-folding, the remaining Proctors soldiered on in private hands until the 1960s, when they were grounded, owing to concerns about