In the mid 1990s the colour scheme was changed to recreate the old Rothmans display team colour scheme, being blue and white with gold, see photograph below.

The Super Cub was flown on floats during the summer months and on wheels during the winter, which gave a chance to do necessary maintenance work and visit land based friends and places that you couldn't whilst on floats. One question we are always asked is how do you get turn a landplane into a floatplane and get it to the lake in the first place? As previously mentioned, the Castle's Polo field came in very useful when on wheels, even though it did mean flying between trees on the approach! As the Super Cub was a factory built floatplane version, it had two lifting hooks on the wings, which meant a JCB could lift the aircraft off the ground. The following images show one such 'change-over' that we did from wheels to floats.

After lifting the aircraft and detaching the wheels, which takes around 30 minutes, it would take a further 3 hours to line up the floats, attach the bracing wires, spreader bars, and water rudders. The aircraft would then be taken by the JCB down the field to the waters edge, and lowered into the water, where it could taxi to the jetty and the slipway.

A special cradle would then be taken down the slipway, put under the spreader bars (between the floats), and winched up. The cradle would then be pulled out the water with a vehicle and the aircraft placed beside the slipway sheltered by trees. This operation was simply reversed when putting it back on wheels.