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Tonight's Geoffrey Johnson-Smith visits an airstrip outside Oxford, where the only public sale of light aircraft in Britain is underway. There are around 70 aircraft available for purchase, but it doesn't seem like there are too many takers. Geoffrey chats to the people who are selling planes, and the people who are thinking about buying one, to find out about the financial realities of owning a private plane in 1959.
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One, 28 April, 1959.
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Tonight's Geoffrey Johnson-Smith visits an airstrip outside Oxford, where the only public sale of light aircraft in Britain is underway. There are around 70 aircraft available for purchase, but it doesn't seem like there are too many takers. Geoffrey chats to the people who are selling planes, and the people who are thinking about buying one, to find out about the financial realities of owning a private plane in 1959.
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One, 28 April, 1959.
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