Hi
Does anyone know anything about the scrap yard in stock, essex and the a/c that are there?
thanks
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Wendie 99
By: J31/32 - 21st April 2008 at 14:47
IIRC, it’s a 330 rather than a Skyvan. Not sure that any of the latter are preserved.
J
By: pagen01 - 21st April 2008 at 13:39
Mmm Skyvan, the sight of which prompts me to ask; apart from the odd flyers are there any preserved in museums etc?
By: Junk Collector - 21st April 2008 at 13:12
Don’t get me started on the Viscount cockpit….
Why not no one else has got started on it !
By: Jamie-Southend - 21st April 2008 at 13:04
Oh go on Stuart feel free. 😀
G-AOHL was the first thing i was let loose on as a spotty 16 year old apprentice at BAF, and hence my interest. Guess it was not to be.
By: stuart gowans - 21st April 2008 at 13:01
Don’t get me started on the Viscount cockpit….
By: Junk Collector - 21st April 2008 at 12:57
Well that makes you at least the fourth person who has had similar experiences with that Viscount. and many others have had similar experiences with other items
The usual way is a deal is agreed and then you turn up at the yard to see what you thought you had bought been taken away by someone else, or long gone, or worse in one instance to see a rare F4J cockpit stripped with a disc cutter by an over excited enthusiast.
By: Jamie-Southend - 21st April 2008 at 12:21
These were from a couple of years ago, plus a definite reluctance to part with the Viscount Cockpit, despite it being offered a few months earlier at £500 🙁
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By: Thunderbird167 - 21st April 2008 at 07:15
Most of what is left is used for film props and is therefore not for sale.
Steve now does very little scrapping as it has little or no return.
He still occassionaly clears bits from Foulness
By: JetBlast - 21st April 2008 at 00:02
the attitude became increasingly less helpful or even polite, the majority of aircraft were cleared years ago.
So it wasn’t just me then!!! I thought that Steve was particularly unhelpful and disinterested, I had a wedge of cash burning a hole in my pocket and they had what I wanted, still, Richard Hukins was more greatful of my custom.
By: Junk Collector - 20th April 2008 at 22:54
Personally I wouldnt waste any time going there, a few years ago it was tremendous, loads of spares, and cockpits, I bought a Canberra for £250.
In later years all the contracts dwindled and the attitude became increasingly less helpful or even polite, the majority of aircraft were cleared years ago.
By: David Burke - 20th April 2008 at 21:57
Hanningfield Metals – not much in there compared to the past. A list is in W&R of the inmates.
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