Gannet XL471

Wrong Gannet, Miggers. XL471 (the subject of this thread) was bought by Neil Moffat for spares use, and the rest was subsequently scrapped. The flier you saw was XL502 which is still in good condition and residing at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington.

Rob

Now there’s a shocker.

I wasn’t even aware she’d been scrapped that long ago.

Remember seeing Neil display her at Cosford in the mid-ish 80’s and thought how impressive she was as the then last flyer.

I thought she was sitting somewhere quietly mouldering away at worst,at best that she was tucked up somewhere safe to maybe
return to the air and display circuit oneday,but scrapped not long after I saw her,well,I never did….

I saw it but it was a mangled heap nothing salvageable as I could not save one piece for a souvenire it did not last more than a few weeks. I did not take a picture.

Can’t even recall a scrap yard tbh

Possibly the old scrappy that I think ,though I could be wrong disappeared when the Fradley site was redeveloped some time ago.

Steve – thanks for that.

Rob68 – I’m not entirely sure, although there can’t be too many possibilities. And as far as I’m aware it was just the fuselage that ended up there.

Rob

Which scrapyard, I’m only 20 min from Lichfield

Brawdy in 1970, best I can do.

Thanks. A late seventies colour shot of the port side might be helpful too!?

Rob

In service shot only I’m afraid.