A Cessna Golden Eagle 421C is in the hands of CSE Aviation Services, where it is being fully refitted and reconditioned. The UK company, which was bought by Signature owner BBA in April, has sold the aircraft to DAT Enterprises, a British computer consultant.\rThe 421C was bought by CSE from a helicopter company that used it for relaying radio and tv signals at motor rallies: It has completed 6,000 hours of flying time. \rEBAN spoke to Dustin Dryden of CSE marketing department about the work in progress.\r"The Golden Eagle III will get a complete paint job, and the left engine has been removed and sent off - it will have a factory remanufactured engine. Two props have been overhauled and all the flight controls have been removed, including the old autopilot and avionics, and full, new, state-of-the-art digital equipment with a fully integrated autopilot capable of flying coupled approaches has been installed," reports Dryden.\r "The interior is very vip, with new leather and walnut woodwork. All completion work has been done in-house." David Hayes of DAT Enterprises, the aircraft's buyer, signed a deal which fixed the price of the Cessna to include the new avionics and completions work. \rCSE has been contracted "to bring it into the 21st century", as Hayes puts it.\r"The Golden Eagle will have avionics to put a 747 to shame - it will pretty much fly itself," said Hayes. "I looked at lots of aircraft. Value for money decided it.\r"The aircraft was rolled out in 1979. If you look at what is made today, they would not compete with it. \r"The 421 looks like a brand spanking new aeroplane. Buying it as a complete project was well worth doing." \rThe 421C is not the only aircraft owned by DAT Enterprises: Two L-39s - Russian military jets - are based at Lydd, UK. Hayes uses them for publicity. \rHe stated that a ride in such an aircraft is unique to his company. \rCSE is a distributor for Honeywell, Continental and Lycoming, and can overhaul engines in-house as well as externally. \rIt has 80 aircraft of its own, all available for hire. The company is also an authorised sales representative for Cessna single engine aircraft, and is an authorised CitationJet service centre.\r Dryden reports that the Golden Eagle's facelift is an area of the market that CSE is keen to nurture: "It is becoming popular for people to buy aircraft that need restoration. \r"We are very happy to do that sort of thing and are undertaking to renovate a lot of aircraft in this fashion."