Gazelle tail stolen

The same bunch tried to take the ally barrels from the lock up compound at the local pub the same night. A scruffy white Transit was filmed but didn`t get the number plate,the suspected vehicle apparently got torched a few weeks later..I love this village…`for the greater good`.

Scrap sadly would be my guess too,when mild steel hit £240 a tonne someone tried to take the prob and hub out of my front garden one night.Luckily it weighing a hell of a lot they only managed to get it off its mount,injuring themself/selves in the process judging by the blood left on the wall.

Ha ha, serves them right! :diablo:

Scrap sadly would be my guess too,when mild steel hit £240 a tonne someone tried to take the prob and hub out of my front garden one night.Luckily it weighing a hell of a lot they only managed to get it off its mount,injuring themself/selves in the process judging by the blood left on the wall.

glad to help:D

Whilst not the missing item, a replacement can be found here:

http://cgi.liquibiz.com/auction/view?id=2301882

John

Hi John
Thank you for this posting we will be putting a bid in just hope its not to expensive. Moving this number of airframes has not come cheep and we have not finished yet

Dave

Whilst not the missing item, a replacement can be found here:

http://cgi.liquibiz.com/auction/view?id=2301882

John

Didnt NAM have a surplus T2 from an airport? The new hangar is superb, but much smaller than a T2. Its heartbreaking to think of the effort that must have gone into aquiring a bloody great hangar and dismantling it.

Sadsack,

A dismantled T2 framework [no cladding] was donated to NAM by a company on Bottesford Airfield in the mid 1990s and I believe that part of that framework was stolen shortly after it arrived at Winthorpe. [I’d forgotten about that!] 😮

As part of their options appraisal for their HLF Project Newark found that new steelwork was nearly as cheap as renovating the existing T2 steelwork. Also they didn’t require the T2 height so they opted for new steelwork for their HLF hangar project.

With the permission of the donor the remainder of the T2 framework was sold to Elvington [merely covering the Bottesford to Newark transport costs]. Then before Newark started construction of the HLF hangar a TA Unit dismantled and moved the T2 framework to Elvington as part of a training exercise.

The sheeting theft I previously referred to was on the HLF hangar, which is 60metres x 40 metres [not sure of the T2 size] and now houses 14 aircraft.

Glad to see this theft has made it to some of the press.

Link and another and again

Maybe Sky news will pick up on it ? 😎

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re

When Newark built there second Hangar they had just under 10,000 square metres of steel wall cladding stolen from their site.

It was later traced to site a few miles away from the site but the Police were unable to prosecute because they didn’t know who owned the lock-up building it was stored in.

Also their site is now kept locked during the day because at least one scrap wagon has been caught on site – “just checking out what they wanted to get rid of!” while the museum was actually open to the public! 😮

Didnt NAM have a surplus T2 from an airport? The new hangar is superb, but much smaller than a T2. Its heartbreaking to think of the effort that must have gone into aquiring a bloody great hangar and dismantling it. Meanwhile the police are being sent to shine torches into bushes to stop rough sleepers, or handing out stupid leaflets, and filling in paperwork, instead of fighting crime. Its the superiors who are letting us down who make them do this rubbish.

mmmmm! Yep very sad you have had the tail boom nicked….but I would like to think our forumites would not be naughty….

Could not agree more!!!

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they cut the chain to get in when there are many other things on site, drag strip, microlights, bike training, lots of things to take to the scrap man, by the way this is not an advert please stay away.
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mmmmm! Yep very sad you have had the tail boom nicked….but I would like to think our forumites would not be naughty….

My last lot of mixed alloy scrap went for nothing at all……

Bruce

I disagree Bruce, some of the stuff you sell on eBay is quite good 😉

Pete

XX457’s tail & boom missing?

As l said on a earlier posting there is other metal on site both steel and aluminium and in smaller sizes that would be moved easier and these have not been touched ,this says to me this was taken for a reason not just scrap,
they cut the chain to get in when there are many other things on site, drag strip, microlights, bike training, lots of things to take to the scrap man, by the way this is not an advert please stay away.
We have made all welcome that have asked to look around and still are but could one of these be the person ?. we still are letting people in that said,
As we would still like to help promote aviation and don’t want the minority to spoil it for the majority

When Newark built their second Hangar they had just under 10,000 square metres of steel wall cladding stolen from their site.

It was later traced to site a few miles away from the site but the Police were unable to prosecute because they didn’t know who owned the lock-up building it was stored in.

Also their site is now kept locked during the day because at least one scrap wagon has been caught on site – “just checking out what they wanted to get rid of!” while the museum was actually open to the public! 😮

I work on the biggest gated industrial estate in europe.

One day a couple of years back, the scrap boys came in during the afternoon with a flat bed truck, parked up and waited for darkness to fall…

The then chopped down a whole streets worth of lamposts with petrol saws – the lights were on at the time…:eek:

Having loaded the truck, they then drove out, with a cheery wave from security…:confused:

The CCTV video didn’t get the number…!

Nige

If they are still stealing manhole covers and roadsigns I am sure they wont turn their nose up at a tail boom !

re

My Uncle tends to drag metal off the beach and skips, and stash it, and when theres enough he takes it to the scrappie only to be conned and given about £3.00 for a bootful. Dont know why he bothers, but hes done it for decades.

Mixed scrap is worth as near nothing as makes no odds right now, so they will have a nasty surprise.

My last lot of mixed alloy scrap went for nothing at all……

Bruce

If it was travellers why leave large lumps of other aircraft :confused: l fear this was done with a use in mind, as it was only placed outside a few days before as a local man now has use of the large shed.
As a member of the AVA and personally involved in moving these aircraft l find it hard to beleave these aircaft have be there all this time untouched and now we have started to move them well l’m lost for words.
It would be nice if someone had a touch of guilt and returned it but if not the AVA are on the look out for a boom.
AND I HOPE PEOPLE LEAVE US TO FINISH WHAT WE STARTED WITH NO MORE LOSES 😡

Its possible an enthusiastic person took it, but it would easily be quickly thrown on the back of say a Transit flatbed and driven away quickly, where larger pieces may not.

I would seriously check the scrapyards in a very wide area even leaflet them, I know others on the forum that have suffered opportunistic thefts by roving scrap collectors haven’t they !