Potez 840 saved on Shetlands!!

What an interesting idea for a garden ornament. I wonder if you would get away with having the fuselage of an aircraft in your back garden but decked out as a spare bedroom with a shower and a loo. Would make a great guest house. Now where to find something that isn’t so rare and would I need planning permission. Hmmmmmmm.

Ali.

Interesting. I’ve seen the Potez on many occasion when travelling into/out of Sumburgh. Glad it’s been saved.

At least one ‘spotter’ identified it to me as a ‘French Jetstream’…..

Scrap

hmm. picture is rather old and that Reg is now a cessna 182. Wonder what happened to that one.

http://www2.airliners.net/open.file/0984883/M/

Last piece of the jigsaw?

J man

NIf so few were built, do any others exist?
Willow

one is in the Le Bourget museum. 3 were built, so this one makes 2. Don’t know what happened to the other one 🙁

Sumburgh was used as a stopping off point for Fleet Air Arm aircraft from Hatston, and an emergency strip for aircraft low on fuel or damaged. The incident with the Potez reminded me of an incident in R.T. Partridge’s book Operation Skua where he nosed over on the waterlogged airstrip, and makes me wonder how many other aircraft, possibly rare types (or bits thereof) are out there.

Now theres a thing!!

Well done for saving it from the scrapman. If so few were built, do any others exist?

Willow

I’ll agree with that – how nearly it could have just dissappeared.

Roger Smith

Now theres a thing!!

Well done for saving it from the scrapman. If so few were built, do any others exist?

Willow