I was one of the crew who collected this from Perth for the museum at Dumfries. We were shown the ATP which is safely tucked up inside being converted to a simulator by the students, and were told that ‘our’ cockpit was at one point part-converted but the project was aborted. This may explain the lack of original looms etc. The college have removed a section of cockpit wall to use as an instruction for students – window mechanism or suchlike – and were to scrap the remains, but called us first.

We really don’t need another project at the moment so the plan is to store it off site,and hope that by the time we get round to doing anything with it (at least 3 years!) the college will be finished with the chopped section and we may have a chance of reconstuction. If not, who knows. It may yet become a tradeable item to swap for something else – we purposefully have not added it to the museum register (with the express permission of the donors) to allow us flexibility in the future.

It would still be nice to know it’s ID though!