By: gaz west - 9th December 2003 at 00:34
f4c
went through my old collection in the attick today found this:
i dont remember taking this photo or even seeing it so where it came from is a bit of a mystery
By: Flood - 8th December 2003 at 16:28
The editor will be pleased abot me mentioning his tome on here so often, if nothing else!
Info from W&R18 (upto 4/2002).
Lakenheath
The Wings of Liberty Memorial Park
‘BM631’ Spitfire V FSM (Full Scale Model!) in ‘XR-C’ 71Sqn colours.
’65-777′ F-4C Really 37419.
’92-048′ F-15A Really 40131.
’72-448′ F-111E Really 68011.
Main gate
‘63319’ F-100D Really 42269, ex FAF.
BDR Air frames
30091 F-15A
60029 F-15A
60124 F-15B
(As I said above both F-15As have not been confirmed as being here since 10/96)
Flood.
By: Moggy C - 8th December 2003 at 14:21
There is definitely an Aadvark in the group of three.
Moggy
By: Moggy C - 8th December 2003 at 14:19
Originally posted by DOUGHNUT
BINGO !!That F-100 is the one I was talking about a couple of months ago. Ex gate guard, I thought was returned to the USA ? I think Lakenheath still has F-105, F-4 and F-15 preserved on base next to the McDonolds. Saddly current security means that visits are out of the qeuestion and I dont even think they are visable from outside. There is still an F-100 by the main gate.
DOUGHNUT
I think I read somewhere that they have a plastic 1:1 Spitfire there too.
Moggy
By: DOUGHNUT - 8th December 2003 at 12:29
BINGO !!
That F-100 is the one I was talking about a couple of months ago. Ex gate guard, I thought was returned to the USA ? I think Lakenheath still has F-105, F-4 and F-15 preserved on base next to the McDonolds. Saddly current security means that visits are out of the qeuestion and I dont even think they are visable from outside. There is still an F-100 by the main gate.
DOUGHNUT
By: Flood - 8th December 2003 at 02:00
W&R again… 11, 13-15th editions.
42265 F-100D arrived at Lakenheath 14/5/91, from Molesworth and previously on the gate at Wethersfield – ex FAF. On the dump by 2/92, marked FW-2265. Departed 7/95 – possibly for Soesterberg, Netherlands.
Flood.
By: gaz west - 8th December 2003 at 00:09
f4c
this f100 was parked near the bdrt airframes for one of the airshows. apparently it was to be used in the drone program.
By: Flood - 6th December 2003 at 01:49
Originally posted by SteveYoung
Oops! Memo to self; read before posting… 😀
😉
Flood.
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th December 2003 at 00:11
Oops! Memo to self; read before posting… 😀
By: Flood - 6th December 2003 at 00:09
Originally posted by David Burke
Because they were not required anymore! I believe the IWM could have had the F-15 but nobody at the base thought to ask if they wanted it!
So which one was it? W&R18 has F-15As 30091 and 60029 as not being seen since 10/96 – which is after the above scrapping date – but there hasn’t been any mention of the identity of the scrapped F-15 since W&R16 (unless it was just wreckage, of course?).
Steve – it was an F-105G!
Flood.
By: David Burke - 5th December 2003 at 23:48
Because they were not required anymore! I believe the IWM could have had the F-15 but nobody at the base thought to ask if they wanted it!
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th December 2003 at 23:47
Presumably the F4’s were scrapped as part of the SALT treaty. No idea on the F100 and F15, although I would guess that the latter was at the end of it’s fatigue life or had been damaged beyond repair.
By: PhantomII - 5th December 2003 at 23:37
Why were those aircraft scrapped?
Does anyone have photos of any of them?
By: Flood - 5th December 2003 at 19:38
According to Wrecks and Relics 16th edition F-4C 40707 along with 37471, 37610, F-105G 24434, and possibly an F-15, were scrapped at Lakenheath in May 1996 by Mil-Ver of Coventry.
Flood.
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