Phantom at Hixon is now dead.

The Phantom has gone to Bruntingthorpe in the last few days apparently.

From my own experience, getting F4 parts from abroad, in particular the US is very very difficult, export restrictions apply for defence purposes, instruments etc are ok, but for other cockpit stuff, very unlikely..

Problem over here was there was a very efficient scrapping process, as there is at present in Germany generally prohibiting the sale of items, I remember during the process here, cockpits and airframes that came to the MOD’s attention as not being scrapped properly were promptly seen to, best example is the Tiger Phantom. There is a fair bit in collections in the UK, but whether people are willing to part with it is another question.

Considering they came out of service relatively recently and there were quite a few of them in service, I never realised Phantom bits were already so hard to find.

Rob

Quite a few phantoms still in service world wide so source to make money on US common parts probably.

Shame she could not be saved but with so many still ‘at risk’ we were going to loose a few hopefully this is the last.

Curlyboy

80k for a 90% complete Lynx…. Who makes these prices up

http://www.vwinme.com/index.php/westland-sea-lynx.html

“Would cost millions new
Worth millions new”

Euh, yeah… Good sales pitch :p

Considering they came out of service relatively recently and there were quite a few of them in service, I never realised Phantom bits were already so hard to find.

Rob

rememeber who ever gets the phantom cockpit has to add VAT to it. So as it stands it’s actually 6k. I’m sure you might be able to help with bits MIke lol.

If you were lucky enough to get the Phantom pit for £5k then seats, instruments and other equipment would set you back at least double that – if you could find it.

Anon.

The F4 is Very very sparse. It was sparsed thoroughly years ago.

Taking on a sparsed F4 would be a hell of a challenge now, not just the question of the cost of the parts, but actually finding them first is the main problem.

If you want to know who makes these prices up, look on Ebay,

80k for a 90% complete Lynx…. Who makes these prices up

http://www.vwinme.com/index.php/westland-sea-lynx.html

That for the herc is having a laugh

Which squadron did the Hercules come from?

Looking through their other auctions I wonder how they arrive at the start prices for their items.

£1000 Lynx Cockpit section
£5000 for the Phantom Cockpit section

Then……..

£95,000 For a Hercules cockpit/forward fuselage

Very nice project for someone. Be interesting to see just how “sparse” the cockpits are!

Rob

Looks like the Phantom cockpit is up for grabs at a more realistic starting price:

http://www.vwinme.com/index.php/f4j-phantom.html?utm_source=vwinme&utm_campaign=dcddce0f31-VWINME_New_Lots_Added6_19_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_617d861e3f-dcddce0f31-337849089

I had a walk round Air & Ground’s piece of runway today, which has nearly been cleared. The Phantom and Hercules cockpits are side by side, both missing their radomes and both having been cut off with the JCB ‘nibbler’. The only other major items are two Lynx fuselages, XZ721 and XZ727, marked, ‘awaiting collection’ and two Pegasus engines.

View the Leeming Javelin thread

It’s here ; http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?131977-Leeming-Javelin-for-sale

View the Leeming Javelin thread

Are Air and Ground handling the Javelin?

Any photos of what aircraft are left?

I think any hope of preservation was lost after they had cut the wings off it. For one in such a bad way £18k was a good price.

Like the Lynx shells, weighed in for scrap for very little, rather than sell them at a lower price to people.

I just don’t get the disposals system we have now, where various dealers would rather scrap stuff than sell it for less than they want to get for it, even if the price is obviously unachievable