Bournemouth Aviation Museum visit/pix

Cheers T6F!

All the best

TT

some of the Harvard bits ended up at my house (my Dad has at his house some cloches made up from Harvard canopies and I have a redundant tailplane, fin and rudder at my house amongst other small paper weight sized pieces) and some went to NWFS at North Weald. As to the rest, I dont know, but will ask Tim Lane to see if he knows.

Best wishes,

Martin

I thought it was based on a Pilatus! Shows how much I know –

Martin, knew you’d have the gen on FX488- I met Bill Hamblin a couple of times before he sadly passed away – we traded a wing with him for some spares for Mike Charlie, his garden was unreal! Always imagined his poor wife shuffling past bits of HE111, Harvard, sea mines and shells to go down a very narrow path to the outside lavvy!

Would love to know where a lot of it ended up when the site was cleared…

All t best

TT

The Dornier bit is spurious – the type has always been refered to by the Swiss as the EKW C3605. There is another in the country under rebuild to fly.

Can anyone tell me what the swiss marked low wing machine is? Does it fly?

Ollie, its a EKW Dornier C-3605 Schlepp (Swiss Target tug version of a earlier swiss dive bomber. Now re-engined with a Lycoming turboprop). It is not airworthy at present but used to be on the airshow circuit in the mid 1990s. Registration is G-DORN.

For more information have a look at:
http://www.aviation-museum.co.uk/schlepp.html
The main site is for the Bournemouth Aviation Museum

Martin

Ollie
It is a Dornier C-3605 reg G-DORN It’s ticket expired a little while ago.

Nice photo’s thanks for posting, have the Bucc’s engines been removed yet,

Hi Andrew, no they have not and they won’t be in the future.

I read that too and hope the same. Provided they don’t expand any more at the moment and concentrate on what they have it shouldn’t be a problem but they will need to take proventative measures on what they have so far.
Not having a “theme” as such perhaps it will appeal to more people as they will visit for specific types that interst them and then take in the rest of the museum.

Can anyone tell me what the swiss marked low wing machine is? Does it fly?

Nice photo’s thanks for posting, have the Bucc’s engines been removed yet, also what is going on with the MIG17 back in 2003 I was told the plan was to fly it within 12 months, is there still an effort underway to get it flying ?

They look to be building a reasonable collection, but it worries me that they are expanding fast, have a number of airframes out in the weather (especially a Venom and a 125, which wont last 5 mins), and have no clear collecting policy.

Sounds a bit like what happend at Southend, hopefully Bournemouth wont go the same way, anyway I am gonna be going Bournemouth for a work project straight after xmas so will visit the museum and see for myself 🙂

The Wessex HAS3 used to be at Halton . She was painted up in the yellow SAR markings so she could appear at the Royal Tournament and pretend to be a Sea King
in the early 1990’s.

“Sorry old bean saw the 1-11 and droppedzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz”

It seem’s to me that people dont realise that there is more to Avation than Military stuff!!!.. 🙂

Keep taking the pic’s TT

Well I did go home and found yes it was another Harvard (my excuse is that have so many period photos that I cant remember all the serial numbers). I do have one of KF487 at Sandhurst (almost there), but none of the one (KF488) at Bournemouth. I used to know Bill Hamblen who owned both the remains of this Harvard and the more substantially complete FX442 in the mid 1980s. FX442 went to a ATC Squadron at Fordingbridge and is now in the Museum at Hawkinge (a photo of this shows her at Sandhurst minus wings and with the codes SI-B circa late 1950s). We got to know each other when I was helping on the rebuild of CTKL in Dorset withTim Lane at Toller Pocorum.

According to John Hamlin’s Harvard file, KF488 saw no RAF service at all and was struck off charge on 20 July 1950. I presume she went straight to Sandhurst after this and remained there until purchased along with FX442. The rest is history (I think).

Its good to know that she is a bit of a bitsy (but then most British Harvards are like this) as looking through the Sandhurst photos I do have, there seem to be pieces of Harvards everywhere. Not all seemed to have been scrapped as at least one escaped. Have a photo of FS881 which later served with the Lebanese Air Force.

As dont have a scanner, will some how try and get the photos onto the forum and probably in a new thread too.

Martin

Oh and Martin if yr wondering why the prop is so short (thanks to buccsoc for the pic) tis cos its fitted with a 985 not a 1340..a very good 985 actually 🙁 – looks the part though doesnt it! Shame really I know of a twin engined transport aircraft that could have done with a spare 😉

TT

Ahem, was wondering when someone would pick that up – I understand it was donated to the museum pre-painted by an RAF unit (which naturally had put it in RAF markings) and they have had no end of grief with people demanding it be put back into its genuine RN scheme – BAMS view is that they have lots of other things on the go and repainting her aint a priority – cant blame them either the aircraft is immaculate!

Wessex fan, you should’ve spotted that, go to the naughty corner…

TT

Is it me, but why is a Wessex HAS3 painted in RAF Rescue marks?

Here’s a pic of the prop being fitted on 14th August this year.

Sorry old bean saw the 1-11 and droppedzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 😀

Martin – if it helps the restoration photos of the Harvard in the Museum show the rear fuselage in faded yellow/white colours and the forward fuz in RAF silver there is no birdcage in the cockpit it is handmade from box girder and heating tube!!

All the best

Ben

Yes Ollie it is a Percival Provost

Home of BAC 1-11 production. site of the First flight of a 1-11 and no shots of ZMF, whats the world coming to!!..

but seriously!!, Nice shots… Nice to see the Lepard in one piece…

From someone who helps out on ZMF!

Cheer’s