Actually part of “Magical Mystery Tour” was filmed in Cornwall, some of it at Watergate Bay. I was at St. Mawgan at the time and the rumour was that the Beatles were invited to the sergeants mess, didn’t happen of course! Whole area was electric for about three days.

Watergate bay being right at the end of the runway and with MOTU, with its T.4 Shacks, on almost continuous circuits it was almost inevitable that one aircraft would get into shot.

I therefore believe that this is the reason that the Shackleton is in this film and can clearly remember seeing it when it was first released.

No way, considering the amount of certain substances consumed by the band at the time, they probably couldn’t remember whether they had ever been to Watergate Bay, I consider myself a bit of a Beatles officianado, my interest in the band started when they were lurking at the Cavern.
I can assure you that this nice big plane just happened to make an impression on the cameraman when he was filming at West Malling, are you seriously suggesting that this was planned, ‘Cool plane man, that looks nice, lets put it on the film’, along with anything else they could think of at the time, thats what the film is all about after all.