Bomber County Aviation Museum, Hemswell(old thread 2006) Update

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What did they do with the exhibits? They had a lot of kit, several cabinets of models and a mock up air raid shelter.

Same with when they closed the museum at Beverly – 4 rooms full of models – what happened to them?

Dave T – Flying Flea to Aeroventure for restoration and display.

Evzen – Thanks for the reminder ! The Hunter had her nose removed and that headed to Aeroventure at Doncaster . I must point out that is was a composite and in fairly poor condition. The rest was scrapped. Similarily the Canberra whilst looking reasonable was suffering quite badly from corrosion.

David,
thank you very much !
Canberra – Very sad story .
Hunter – lives ?

Evžen

Evzen

Lightning F.1 XM192 went to Thorpe Camp near Tattershall

Canberra T.19 WJ975 cockpit removed and to Aeroventure Doncaster -rest scrapped

Provost T.1 WW421 to Sleap Shropshire

Vampire XD544 to Abbots Bromley

Mystere to Aeroventure and awaiting disposal through USAFM

Jet Provost T.4 to Dumfries and Galloway

In the year 2004 I visited this museum but unfortunately already was without marks life.
Fortunately all the aeroplanes put photo at least over the fence.
I interest would me fate of all aeroplanes in this museum.

Evžen

As for the Canberra – now one complete T.19 left at Newark with the nose of the Hemswell example now at Doncaster (Aeroventure).

Sadsack – The rent was reasonable from speaking to members of the former group and indeed helping to move one of the aircraft. The problem was too many aircraft and not enough members to maintain them. Simply put a museum needs to be on business terms and you need to both have a realistic price for admission and a good cafe. There was certainly enough visiting public to Hemswell to make it pay – you simply cannot rely on aircraft in a field anymore to keep the public interested.

Thanks Dave T list updated 🙂

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I find it most unlikely that the RAF would resue it when Scampton is just down the road. Hemswell has no runways, all the buildings are privately owned there is no security and the housing is now Hemswell Cliff village.

The government still own the hangars (what a waste) and I was told the landlords jacked the rent up 10 times to get rid od the museum. I was that told by the team moving the Mysterre. A pity the Canberra was broken up, how many T19s are left?

XM144 nose isn’t with Barry Parkhouse, and hasn’t been for some time.

Any idea where it is now ??

Hi Macks aviation

The other lightning in question is XP706 and is now owned by me it left hemswell in 2002 and is now at Aeroventure at doncaster South Yorkshire.

Scott C

Thanks guys as you can see I am currently living in the Netherlands so have lost touch a little with whats going on over in the UK however keeping the list upto date is proving harder than I thought.

Hemswell Museum

I went to the Sunday Market there a couple of weeks back, and can confirm that it’s well and truly CLOSED!

As well as Damiens excellent site, you can also look:

Here

Regards

Found the other one on DamienB’s site ‘Thunder and Lightnings’ – http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/survivorspics2.html#XP706

OK so my initial searches didn’t find this museum on the forum but now seems that it has infact closed, but any help with my Lightning survivors would still be appreciated 🙂