Of course Peter Jackson's biggest claim of fame for me (aside from his film-making) is his "The Vintage Aviator Ltd." company in New Zealand, which for a good number of years now has both restored original WWI aircraft and aero engines and reproduced WWI aircraft and aero engines to original specifications only, in exacting detail with no detail overlooked. Some of the engines they've rebuilt and built new had previously been extinct in operational form - Oberursels, Bentleys, RAF.4A and RAF.1A engines, Beardmores, etc. Kermit Weeks owns a couple aircraft produced by TVAL (partly acquired in exchange for using some of his WWI engines to copy), and a few more are privately owned and based in England and France, though the vast majority remain with TVAL/Peter Jackson in their own collection in New Zealand and operated on a routine basis from their home base of Masterton (Hood Aerodrome), though some get over to Omaka as well. One of TVAL's Albatross DVA's just recently was sold and arrived at Old Warden in England within the past month or so, where it is now to be based/operated. All of TVAL's restorations and reproductions are absolutely incredible in their depth of accuracy to originality - as close to the way they were in WWI as anyone has achieved. A few of their reproductions, in-fact, are displayed at the Royal Air Force Museum in London.
