Have been waiting to post these for ages. Visited Aeroventure at the end of January and must say its an excellent amatuer run museum. Most of the exhibits are inside, and I have never seen so many noses in my life. The main hangar is packed tight but did manage some shots. A very friendly place even let round the store too.
1) G-ARHX Dove
2)WB733 Chipmunk
3)WF122 Sea Prince formerley at Helston
4) XA870 Whirlwind nicely restored in HMS Endurance scheme
5) XP706 Lightning stored outside
6) WA662 Meteor in a nice 70’s RAE scheme
7) noses,noses everywhere
8) a close up of the Chippie
9) XE935 Vampire
10) XP190 Scout in a dark corner
By: David Burke - 19th February 2005 at 13:43
I must point out all this effort has been done at by volunteers . Nearly five years ago I visited the site when it was just a vandalised hangar which had been vacated by Yorkshire Water. Certainly it had potential but the scale of the achievement in making it happen and continuing to be successful shouldn’t be underestimated. Certainly some of the aircraft need TLC. However I was there in many cases when the aircraft were salvaged. The Whirlwind HAR.9 for example was stored in a farmer’s field in deepest
Lancashire. She certainly didn’t have a bright future. Similarily the Piper Apache was bought by me on behalf of Windmill Aviation. An early morning start up to Connah’s Quay followed by a sprint back down with her on the back of a lorry to Spanhoe Lodge
saw her delivered. Thanks to the generosity of Carl Tyers she was gifted to the museum after her engines were removed. She is the only Apache in preservation in the U.K. I must underline that pictures show only a tiny fraction of the whole picture.
So whilst tatty airframes do feature at Aeroventure – the overiding theme is one of
preservation and in that respect the they are trying incredibly hard to both house aircraft and indeed rescue them.
By: scott c - 19th February 2005 at 11:13
Robbelc
The Lightning you pictured is F.6 XS897, You can just see the front of XP706 in the background.
Scott C
By: DGH - 17th February 2005 at 22:36
Nice piccies Robbel, I really must get up there this year! 🙂
By: robbelc - 17th February 2005 at 18:05
just a few more
1) G-APMY Pa23, first registered in 1958 so older than most of the jets
2) XN386 Whirlwind in need of some TLC
3) one for the purests 😀
4) WS776 Meteor at Sandtoft the same day
5) G-BWGT Jet Provest landing at Sandtoft
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February 17, 2005 at 5:18 pm