September 10, 2013 at 9:42 pm
Is there a definitive list of DH Comet survivors?
So far I have these;
XK699 / 7971M – RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire
G-AMXA / XK655 – Al Mahatta Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
G-AMXH / XK695 – DeHavilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, London Colney
G-ANAV / CF-CUM – Science Museum, Wroughton, Wiltshire
G-AOJT / F-BGNX – DeHavilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, London Colney
G-APAS / XM823 – RAF Museum, Cosford
G-APDB – Imperial War Museum, Duxford
G-APDF / XV814 – Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
G-APYD – Science Museum, Wroughton, Wiltshire
G-BDIW / XR398 – Hermeskeil, Germany
G-BDIX / XR399 – National Museum of Flight, East Fortune
G-BEEX – North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland
G-CPDA / XS235 – Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire
N777WA – Parque Zoológico Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
N888WA – Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington, USA
5301 – Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Canada
Simulator – DeHavilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, London Colney
Any other complete or sections of aircraft that I’ve missed?
http://www.ukairfields.org.uk/comet.html
Thanks
Richard
By: garryrussell - 1st December 2013 at 13:57
The Nimrod demo in Holland is G-ALYW
By: REF - 11th September 2013 at 18:39
Thanks for the help so far, I have updated the list in my first post.
By: Bruce - 11th September 2013 at 09:29
The Dan Air simulator hasn’t been with the Science Museum for over 10 years – its at the de Havilland Museum, but most of the simulator stuff was scrapped, as it was incomplete.
It is an unflown Mk1 nose, but completely fitted out as a 4C.
Bruce
By: Arabella-Cox - 11th September 2013 at 08:35
the bit inside the Nimrod demo-now in Holland
and
mark 1 nose on the Dan simulator held by science museum.
By: Consul - 10th September 2013 at 22:27
Of the survivors you list, three of them purely comprise nose sections, namely : MXA, NAV, PDF. The nose of RCAF 5301 is preserved in Canada. Can’t find my slide of it but here’s a link to another photographer’s work: http://www.jimnewtonphotography.net/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=24&pos=0
By: Roborough - 10th September 2013 at 22:24
There is a cockpit section of an ex RCAF Comet in the Canada Air & Space Museum. I cannot find the serial no. though
Bill
By: FLY.BUY - 10th September 2013 at 21:55
Some years back ( not too many ) I heard mention of a comet cockpit section possibly SPT standard procedures trainer at an ATC unit at Biggin Hill, not sure if true or not?