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RAF main gate airfield signs

Does anybody know what happens to the main gate airfield signs when an RAF base closes permanently? Are they put in store somewhere or just disposed of as unwanted ?

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By: airfield - 3rd March 2023 at 18:41

Hmm

Obviously when an RAF Station closes the main gate sign must go somewhere, surely not on the scrapheap. I think an approach to the RAF Museum might be more productive ?

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By: Arabella-Cox - 3rd March 2023 at 09:02

I can only offer an anecdote. 

 

Back in the 1990s I bought such a sign, from Binbrook’s main gate at an aerojumble.  I was informed that it had been “souvenired” when the station closed.

 

I can’t add much more.  I applied what I considered to be a reasonable price increase and it sold off my stall within minutes.  I think I mis-underestimated the “Lightning effect”!

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