Whilst at the Avalon Airshow a RAAF mechanic told me that all of the F-111’s that were not going to the main museums were going to be shredded due to some agreement with the US. Has anyone else heard this? I would have thought it would be relatively easy to make them unusable (cut the wing hinges for example) and it is not like the F-14 where an unfriendly country could obtain spares from the airframes. I would certainly like an escape module if any were to be broken up.

Cheers Paul

not 100% sure about the C models as i believe we purchased them outright, if we did then they arent subject to the “scrap-at-end-of-life” clause very common to US FMS sales contracts.

However the G model was sold under an FMS contract so i believe any examples that are not marked for preservation by a military or government institution must be scrapped/destroyed in some manner