Strathallan Aviation Museum

Oooòoo she does look good!

Spitfire Tr.9 MJ772 looking fantastic the other day….. (Photo via flyaspitfire.com on Facebook)

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In 2015 the Oshkosh show featured two side by side http://airshowstuff.com/v4/2015/the-many-highlights-of-eaa-airventure-oshkosh-2015/
At least it is undercover and secure.

Here’s the Mossie at Oshkosh in 2016, she’s not fared well.
N35MK Mosquito, Oshkosh by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr
One of the Tiger Moths in Edinburgh
G-AOEL Tiger Moth , NMS Edinburgh by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr
The rear fuselage of the Lancaster at Doncaster
G-BCOH Lancaster, Doncaster by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

Shocking quality but this was a couple of months after the Lancaster’s arrival, taken August 1975

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Hampden,Spitfire Malcolm hood Mustangythingy
Love it

The Reid and Sigrist Desford recently resurfaced at Spanhoe, having been stored in pieces at Snibston Discovery Park.

Indeed and is airworthy having flown.

Desford Run by Tony Taylor, on Flickr

There’s a website dedicated to the full and complicated story of the Strathallan Lancaster at

Definitely worth my hard-earned pocket money! 🙂

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Not a bad display for 50 pence!

Originally posted by DazDaMan
I think the SE.5a replica is the one that is/was owned and flown by Neil Geddes?

Yes indeed, Daz – article from the Perthshire Advertiser back in 1986 –

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And the poster for the Air Display mentioned by Robert Whitton in post 17 –

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Here’s the Lancaster when it was still at the museum.

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I think the SE.5a replica is the one that is/was owned and flown by Neil Geddes?

Kermit has posted photos of the Lancaster on Facebook, in part due to requests from interested followers. Facebook makes it maddeningly difficult to hotlink to their photographs, probably quite deliberately. If you carry out a search for “Kermit Weeks Lancaster” with the Facebook search function you get various images of the lorry backs he keeps the remains stored in, engines and wheels.

If you search too far, however, you find a post by one Kermit Lancaster talking about Bachelor Week. The power of AI…

In one post from 2015 he refers to his “Lancaster project”, which makes me quietly optimistic that something is happening with it. Either way I’m glad it is stored out of the elements, rather than dumped outside as it was, post-Woodford, at North Weald.

Ex RAF collegue was on the Comet for its “arrival” where it took the gear out on one side by hitting the remains / foundations of a buried wall, he told me the Captain turned round to shout abandon aircraft to see the engineers on board, having dumped the overwing exits were already some distance away from the aircraft and still going..

IIRC, title was still with the RAF at that point, so they were responsible for repair before it was handed over to the Museum. This resulted in a caveat in the sale of the Shackleton that ownership transfered to the Museum when in sight of the airfield, just in case! How true that is, i don’t know.

My last vist there was in 1984, after the auction but even then it was a great place.

The Comet cockpit referred to above is at the Al Mahatta Museum (the site of the old RAF Sharjah), not Dubai. https://sites.google.com/site/lgarey/rafsharjah%2Calmahattamuseum

Comet R2 XL655 ex G-AMXA. ELINT with 51 Squadron, well-known hardish (!) landing at Strathallan, then nose on Gatwick roof for 10 years before being restored for Al Mahatta in 2007.

1974 Air Show at Strathallan with the Shackleton and others.

In the BBC clip posted by Daren, that looks like a young Kermit in the Mossie cockpit.

From memory, their Comet

Ex RAF collegue was on the Comet for its “arrival” where it took the gear out on one side by hitting the remains / foundations of a buried wall, he told me the Captain turned round to shout abandon aircraft to see the engineers on board, having dumped the overwing exits were already some distance away from the aircraft and still going..

some pics

https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?128564-Strathallan-Aircraft-Collection-latter-days

I was having a look through some photos I have on my laptop, and found this scanned postcard that I had from many moons ago, showing Hurricane G-AWLW and Spitfire G-AVAV, presumably somewhere over Perthshire in the 1970s.

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Kermit posted a video a few months ago on youtube after the hurricane in which he said he was happy about the fact that the containers with the Lanc parts in it were safer and sund after the heavy storms!

Theres another video of the Mosquito too in which he claims he plans to get the Mossie airworthy again at some point! Whether that will happen or not is a different story i guess