The news of Bob Coles death was in FlyPast. Bob was a member of the committee at Lasham and owned a couple of the airframes. There are no plans at the moment for airframes to move on. What I must point out is that whilst some aircraft might appear uncared for – the group is active and striving to do their best. The notion that aircraft should move to preserve them is fine – however the rain that falls over Lasham has the same elements to promote corosion as any other part of the country.
To effectively preserve an aircraft at best you need to bring it indoors
just to slow down the rate of deterioration. Anything else is fighting a slow decline which cannot be stopped – just slowed. How this fits in with Lasham
is that they are trying to do something. For instance the Sea Prince was saved from the FAAM at Yeovilton when they put it up for disposal . If Lasham hadn’t acquired it – it very likely would have been scrapped. Disposed of at the same time from Yeovilton was the Sea Prince C.2 which was burnt in the Channel Islands.
So in essence whilst the aircraft might appear uncared for – they have in many cases survived certain extinction and might in future go on to other places – they are however at present secure and not under threat.