Former Kinloss Gate Guard at Spey Bay

What is the status of XV244? Is it’s future secure?

XV244 is still at Kinloss and is complete, but it wouldnt be wise to speculate on its future at present, I am aware of lots of work going on in the background, so lets all hope for a positive announcement in the New Year

What is the status of XV244? Is it’s future secure?

Yes indeed. A sad day. I didn’t know they had built a memorial. RIP chaps.

I take it that’s from the wreckage of the Toronto Airshow tragedy?

It is indeed the aircraft was XV239

You would think the tailfin would catch on?? There is one piece of Nimrod over here at the Air Musuem in Downsview. They ahve the complete tailfin as a memorial.. very nice tribute I thought.

I take it that’s from the wreckage of the Toronto Airshow tragedy?

Folks

I would just like to say a big thanks to everyone who replied, I now have comprehensive histories on both aircraft.

GG:)

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Is Spey Bay a place or the Spey bay at Kinloss, seems a bit of a coincidence?

Spey bay is a place – the mouth of the River Spey that the engine is named after.
XV240’s forward fuselage is actually at Spey Bay Salvage – if you look the company up on Google maps, you’ll see the site is actually built on RAF Dallachy’s most seaward runway end…

Scotavia- Scotland’s aviation heritage is still poorly represented. East Fortune could do a lot better -look at the types still missing ala Canadian Sabres-D.H Heron-HS 748 -all of which played a part in Scottish aviation!

Its a damn long way from Southend to Scotland to shift a 748 as that’s about the last place you will find one.

Going back to the Nimrod its nice to see that she appears to have been separated on or around the front fuselage center section joint. As most folks will know the HS 801 was basically a Comet 4 with a chunk removed aft of the center section and a chunk removed in front of the center section. Suggest you speak to the crew at Elvington re missing bits as they seem to have become experts at tracking down stuff removed then just dumped in skips the logic of that seems to escape me but still why dismantle Tornado’s and store the bits when you are scrapping them but that’s stupid incompetent government policy for you waste time effort and money.

Good on you guys for all the effort in preserving at least the front end if nothing else.

mike E

Scotavia- Scotland’s aviation heritage is still poorly represented. East Fortune could do a lot better -look at the types still missing ala Canadian Sabres-D.H Heron-HS 748 -all of which played a part in Scottish aviation!

Apologies:o
Great to see this cockpit section preserved, how complete is the flight deck?
Is Spey Bay a place or the Spey bay at Kinloss, seems a bit of a coincidence?

Shame something like a Nimrod cockpit didn’t make its way down to St Mawgan in Cornwall to commemorate the types’ important association with that airfield.

As far as am aware the cockpit is complete but the back end is pretty much gutted up to the Nav Stations, the plan will be to use it for disabled visitors,

Edit…Spey Bay is a place about 25 miles from Kinloss

Apologies:o
Great to see this cockpit section preserved, how complete is the flight deck?
Is Spey Bay a place or the Spey bay at Kinloss, seems a bit of a coincidence?

Shame something like a Nimrod cockpit didn’t make its way down to St Mawgan in Cornwall to commemorate the types’ important association with that airfield.

Speaking as a local I am very impressed by the effort made to preserve this Nimrod section. Fingers crossed that the proposed aviation heritage centre takes off. It would be great if the Science musuem could loan the DH Dragon currently stored at Wroughton. Apart from Nigel Reads airworthy DH Moth it represents the early aspect of civil airlines in the North of Scotland.

Guys, if you want to talk about “Tailplanes” please start your own thread, this one is about a NIMROD FUSELAGE and I would like it to remain so

I suppose the presence of the tail planes and fin might present certain logistical difficulties to a collector who wants to take his or her ‘rear end’ to a display.

Yes, I was offered a special marks Phantom tail, as a remove it imediately from the site and you can have it deal, I was dead excited until I turned up and tried dragging it away by myself!:eek:

Khazifest would be a treat! Some of the most interesting badges and markings go onto tails; in the airline industry the vertical stabiliser is there purely to place the airline’s logo on as large as possible, and the hori stab is there on which to mount logo lights, so said logo on the fin can be visible at any hour of the day or night.

Or a double car port! 😀

would make a cool garage forecourt roof though 🙂

I suppose the presence of the tail planes and fin might present certain logistical difficulties to a collector who wants to take his or her ‘rear end’ to a display. I can’t imagine, when the RAF VC-10s finally get the chop, someone buying the rear end of one of those to tow up the M1, behind their Disco, to ‘khazifest’ without attracting a lot of attention – not least from the boys in blue! Furthermore had such a collector lived and stored his or her VC-10 rear end in western Scotland last week, it might have been an ‘interesting’ experience for them and their neighbours.

You would think the tailfin would catch on?? There is one piece of Nimrod over here at the Air Musuem in Downsview. They ahve the complete tailfin as a memorial.. very nice tribute I thought.

Hmm, having regard to what is usually located at the tail end of many multi-occupant aeroplanes, if collecting the rear ends of aircraft catches on and the collectors want to gather together to display their ‘pride and joy’, what’s the event going to be called? Khazifest? Somehow I don’t think that it’ll catch on!