I thought these might be of interest. The museum is just a few minutes walk to the east of the main Syntagma square. The museum is free entry and these are parked outside.
F-104G 6695
F-5A 689071
F-84F 53-7216
Texan 32803
F-86D Sabre 51-8404 painted as 51-6171
By: chumpy - 20th February 2009 at 23:17
Alan,
Interestring to hear about your hotel, BIA etc. As it happens I flew by BIA 1-11 to Athens, good service as I recall.
On the return journey we had to make an un-scheduled stop at Brussels to pick up a bit of fuel. The captain not certain that we would make it back to Gatwick!
Most passengers a bit peeved about the delay, however myself and sidekick pleased to get a few more reggies. Sent BIA a letter saying thanks..got a nice reply,,shame they are no more.
Chumpy.
By: battle_damaged - 20th February 2009 at 22:09
Yup that J made me look twice to!
Photo taken in 1987 during a silly spotting trip to Athens, staying at an hotel overlooking the airport, boy it was hot. Whats the latest on the Spit, seem to recall reading that the Greek A/F museum wanted to get her airworthy?..Calling Mark12!!!
I was actually on a ‘proper’ museum tour, including the National and the Benaki. If I recall rightly, you had to pass the war museum, as it was then, to get to the Benaki, thus my girlfriend at the time had to be patient while I photographed everything.
Our hotel was superb – it was the craziest I’ve ever been to. An English lady had set up a ‘pension’ quite near the Plaka in a house or two that resembled a treehouse made of bricks and mortar, seemingly on various levels. I noticed a small painting of a BAC 1-11 on the wall, G-AXOX I believe, and it turned out she had been a stewardess with BIA in a former life. Super woman, and obviously very popular.
Wonder if anyone knows who I mean…..:cool:
brgds
Alan
By: chumpy - 20th February 2009 at 20:15
Yup that J made me look twice to!
Photo taken in 1987 during a silly spotting trip to Athens, staying at an hotel overlooking the airport, boy it was hot. Whats the latest on the Spit, seem to recall reading that the Greek A/F museum wanted to get her airworthy?..Calling Mark12!!!
By: battle_damaged - 20th February 2009 at 16:12
Last time I was there was in 1995,the Curtiss Helldiver was also outside.It has since gone to Tatoi-Dekelia, along with the Spitfire that used to be here and both have been completely refurbished. The F-5A is a recent addition. Is that a Bell47G by the entrance behind the F-104’s nose? When i was there, there was a Tiger Moth at that location and that is also now at Tatoi, leaving just the more hardy fighters outside here.
Adrian,
I was there some 20 years previous to that, and recall the Helldiver, Harvard, Tiger Moth and Spitfire. The Spitfire’s serial no. was MJ something, but they had reversed the J (on one side at least), making it look quite strange! Got a photo somewhere…..
brgds
Alan
By: AMB - 20th February 2009 at 14:33
Last time I was there was in 1995,the Curtiss Helldiver was also outside.It has since gone to Tatoi-Dekelia, along with the Spitfire that used to be here and both have been completely refurbished. The F-5A is a recent addition. Is that a Bell47G by the entrance behind the F-104’s nose? When i was there, there was a Tiger Moth at that location and that is also now at Tatoi, leaving just the more hardy fighters outside here.
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