Fantasy air museum

I’d ask RR Heritage to come over as well, or maybe I’d buy RR Hucknall as well. Wow Newton and Hucknall, now that’s history n heritage.

Mick

I’d buy RAF Newton, yes it’s in Nottinghamshire, not in the south east, south west or anywhere else down there. It’s about time some aviation heritage was placed up here. There’s more to England and its aviation heritage than Duxford Biggin Hill North Weald etc. And I would also set up an educational facility so those of us who are not as young as we used to be can pass on our experience and trade skills. And a bloody degree isn’t required. Common sense, ability and a willingness to learn is what’s needed.

aeroplane types –

Lancaster
Spitfire
Hurricane
Sea Fury
DC 3
Varsity
Vimy

Mick

Not sure where I would set up the museum. Maybe Biggin Hill, but hangar renting is expensive at Biggin, fuel is good price compared to other places. What I would have is something like this:

Beech 18/C-45
4 x T-6 Texan’s/Harvard’s (to form a new Harvard display team)
de Havilland DH.104 Dove
DC-3/C-47
Piper L-4 and a Piper NE-1
And two Spitfires, one Mk9 and one ‘low back canopy’ Mk16
and a Antonov An2

I would also get involved with bringing a Mosquito to the UK and airworthy, and helping the Avro Shackleton WR963 Project up at Coventry to return to flight.

Davidstow Moor airfield, fully restored, with Beaufighters, Beauforts, Hudsons, Ansons etc on the dispersals (all flyers of course) perhaps with a Warwick or two taking off and heading out to sea now and then (er, have I got any budget left??!! 😀 )

I’m sure they’d like the sound of that – just in case; all of the contact details can be found in here! 😀

Have a good evening! 🙂

I would build a hangar big enough to get a VC Ten in, then try to buy a C1 version and put it back into white, I would also try to get a Jag out of Cosford, buy a Wessex, Puma and Chinook so I would have a museum of the types I worked on in the RAF… I would donate 10 million of my 200 million to Headley court to assist those in need. I would also buy a hangar for the likes of Newark so they could put everything under cover.. I would help out other museums too 🙂

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Personally, I’d want a small grass airfield that was just about the right size to take C-47.

My Aircraft list would be the following:

Early War

Later War

If only…

This topic is one that my friends and i have had quite often over the years on the way to and from airshows.
My thoughts ?
Buy former R.A.F. Coltishall, nice historic base, nice long runway, and local too.
Aircraft ? De-havilland hornet, Republic F-84G, Hawker Demon, Sea fury T20, Low back Spitfire XIV ( in silver), and a Vickers Varsity as a support aircraft, (with lots of Day-glo on it obviously ).
All realistic too ish ! ? ?
As for Fantasy museum ? Hmm well where do we start ? Gloster Javelin, Tempest V, Vickers Vildebeest, Firefly AS7, E.E.Lightning T4, H.P.Heyford, Macchi 202, Dornier 335, P-61 , …….. this could go on for a while.

But hey, you gotta have a dream.

The USAF museum would have to have a change of policy first….but i would buy an A-10,F-4D Phantom,F-101C Voodoo,F-86A,F-86D,F-84G,F-84F and a T-33A and place them on loan at the Bentwaters Cold War Museum.

I have thought about this every time a euromillions rollerover comes along!
My personal fleet would be
PC12 as every day rubabout
Grumman Albatross for those trips for the seaside
Chipmunk for me to learn to fly in
yak 52 for the advanced training.

now for the museum-location unknown,somewhere in the south. It would be a little like airbase but with more imagination and lots more money!!!
First purchase the two DC-4’s at North Weald and restore one as a R5D and the other as static.
DC-6 G-APSA airworthy
Douglas R4D-8 US Navy as based in the UK
Lockheed Neptune, the ex RAF one if its still around in the US
Vickers Viscount-airworthy
Bristol 170-airworthy
AT Carvair
Sunderland back from Kermit Weeks
Classic British light aircraft (Gemini,Messenger, Proctor, Rapide etc)
Classic british fighters (Hunter,Venom, Meteor, Sea Hawk etc)
World war 1 replicas Gotha, handley page V1500!!
and a replica handley page 42 and that is just to start..

Actually I have had a brain wave, if a new London airport is ever built I can buy LHR and the BA maintenance base…..;). Truth is my wife would have already spent it on horses!

You see!!, you read my mind, in the Sir Roy Dobson hangar there is an Avro York under construction with a large pile of Stirling bits being catalogued as their next major build. A Short Sturgeon is undergoing its final coat of paint and a Bristol Brigand is awaiting the fitting of its no2 engine. Meanwhile above the noise of the airtools being used on the DH Hornet wing the unmistakable sound of the Victor circling overhead ready to join the Nuclear Deterrent trio flight of Vulcan ,Victor and Valiant to close the days display flying. And OK theyve totally blown the budget but what are dreams made for? As Willy Wonka once said….. A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men!

You forgot the massed flypast by ex Burmese Spitfires!

Fantasy museum

You see!!, you read my mind, in the Sir Roy Dobson hangar there is an Avro York under construction with a large pile of Stirling bits being catalogued as their next major build. A Short Sturgeon is undergoing its final coat of paint and a Bristol Brigand is awaiting the fitting of its no2 engine. Meanwhile above the noise of the airtools being used on the DH Hornet wing the unmistakable sound of the Victor circling overhead ready to join the Nuclear Deterrent trio flight of Vulcan ,Victor and Valiant to close the days display flying. And OK theyve totally blown the budget but what are dreams made for? As Willy Wonka once said….. A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men!

anyone care to join me and look in the other hangar?;)

Wouldn’t the other hangar be filled with Stirling components from China?

Oh yes just imagine a bright summers day, a Wyvern on finals,

You have good taste sir. If you had a Wyvern, i’d be your very best friend :D.

Rob

Fantasy museum!!

Oh yes just imagine a bright summers day, a Wyvern on finals, a Mossie just warming up for take-off with a Bristol Freighter on the flightline and a hoard of eager enthusiats paying a pound to walk through. Period style ice cream vans selling those cornets where the ice cream was rectangular and in a little wrapper.in the hangars can be seen a number of ‘on the go’ projects including a Blackburn Botha and a whirlwind nearing their completion, walk through to the other side of the hangar back into the open and Beaufighter is being rolled into the sunshine awaiting its turn to display. look down back to the flightline and theres a line up of magister, miles hawk. gemini and prentice. anyone care to join me and look in the other hangar?;)

Hey Inkworm,

What about the glorious XFY-1?!?!

If I want to get them all flying again I’m not sure if the budget would stretch that far, we have to be realistic about this!:D

Plus it’s prop driven and that rules out the tilt rotors as well.

bomber museum

Former RAF Bicester.

All there – just need the aircraft – battle, blenheim, anson, hampden, halifax.

Mark

A fully active WW2 base featuring Short Stirlings, Halifaxs, Typhoons and any other British ww2 ‘underdog’ you care to mention. Not sure £200 million would go far though.

Or buy the Ark Royal and a squadron of Harriers, you’d still have plenty of change left given what we sold our Harrier force for!

This place;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-18443044

And one of these;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito

That is all.

Hey Inkworm,

What about the glorious XFY-1?!?!