Aircraft Parts In Buildings

I checked out GVA yesterday. I am told the Atlantic was scrapped when the new buildings were erected recently. Pity really.

Laurence

A Winjeel aileron in use as a bar top.
Paul

I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Heinkel 111 (CASA) nose grafted on to the ATC tower at Camarenilla in Spain. Shown below is the photo from Mikel Olrog’s fabulous Preserved Axis Aircraft website…

Always wondered why they did this… but it is pretty cool looking!

Cheers,
Richard

A garage in Connah’s Quay North Wales has parts of what looks to be Caudron tail booms acting as roof supports. They served as training machines at nearby RAF Sealand during the Great War.

Atlantic at GVA

I have just heard from a friend who works in the IATA building at GVA, near where the restaurant was, that the whole place disappeared with the new terminal works, and he does not know what happened to the Atlantic. I shall try to find out.

Laurence

In Jaipur, India, the nightwatchmans hut at a furniture factory is a structure built of bamboo poles covered over with DH9 fabric!

When we recovered the two DH9’s from Bikaner a lot of the fabric was stripped off (a long story!!) before shipment and when I went back six months later to organise packing etc I was amazed to see where the security guard lived. Stupidly, I didn’t take a photograph as I was distracted by a horde of Indians with long poles – some of them metal – lifting up HT power cables to allow our container truck into the factory yard!

Atlantic at GVA

Seems this was there in 2004. I shall go and see next week.

Laurence

http://www.airliners.net/photo/France—Navy/Breguet-1150-Atlantic/0715665/M/

I shall check it out.
Laurence

Yes please!

I love that KC-97 restaurant.

I only ever ate there once when I was seeing people from ACI whose offices (at that time) were down that end of the terminal. It was usually the Swissair canteen for me whenever I visited the IATA offices at the other end.

Thanks. I never eat there, but now I seem to recall that there was a fin mentioned. In fact I think they called it the Atlantique restaurant. I shall check it out.

Laurence

In the restaurant at the western end of the terminal and the tail fin used to be up on the roof. Number 27 from memory. Maybe they moved it all, as it’s a few years since I was there last.

Really? I live just down the road from GVA and would like to find that Atlantic. Any details of where exactly? I have never seen it.

Laurence

There are parts of a French Navy Atlantic in the terminal building at Geneva Cointrin

Even further from the subject, there’s also the remains of a Swordfish built into the runway at Ringway from the old Fairey works,
Jim

Does this count?

The Airplane Restaurant in Colorado Springs. The rest og the AC is outside and has seating for the guests.

The Jaguar Factory at Castle Brom allegedly has a Spitfire wing patching a hole in the roof, and (slighty off topic) Lancaster bomb door hydraulic rams are still in use at MIRA to power a test rig.

Hei,

Down at the page you can see nice photos of a hotel in Teuge, the Netherlands. http://www.hotelsuites.nl/bijzondergebouw.php?view=detail&bzgb=Vliegtuig&hotel=1889

Regards,

Mathieu.

When someone was restoring a Sikorsky S-39, they found a rare tail boom acting as a roof support in a California warehouse.

Here’s another:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43302

http://www.airportjournals.com/Display.cfm?varID=0305005