Scrapyard Photos; Any More?

These above were the only 4 photos I took unfortunately

Will try to check back thro’ the SCAN DVD’s to check out serials, but I’m fairly sure 850 & 856 were quoted frequently as being there.

Usual E&OE warning – The Navy was very good at stencilling panels with serials. Panels get/got swapped leading to various erroneous reports over the years then – or did someone misread VR850?

And this was in the days long before the internet & computers made checking things vastly easier!

Willing to be corrected!!

These are excellent photos, many thanks for posting them. Did you note which single seat vampires these were?

Did you get photos of these Sea Hornets too?

I would be interested to see how VR856 got there as it was written off after it ran off the end of the runway at Hal Far in Malta?

These above were the only 4 photos I took unfortunately

Will try to check back thro’ the SCAN DVD’s to check out serials, but I’m fairly sure 850 & 856 were quoted frequently as being there.

Usual E&OE warning – The Navy was very good at stencilling panels with serials. Panels get/got swapped leading to various erroneous reports over the years then – or did someone misread VR850?

And this was in the days long before the internet & computers made checking things vastly easier!

Willing to be corrected!!

I have VR850 & VR856 logged as there

Did you get photos of these Sea Hornets too?

I would be interested to see how VR856 got there as it was written off after it ran off the end of the runway at Hal Far in Malta?

Isn’t this a Hornet/Sea Hornet cockpit.?

Looking at the marks on the fuselage indicating the wing join, you may be correct Vampire noses are much further in front of the wings

I have VR850 & VR856 logged as there

This is probably a classic over simplification, but I thought the forward cockpits of Vampires and Hornets were based on each other?

Totally different.

The single seat Vampire was a much wider cockpit than the Hornet.

BTW excellent pics there Elaref, please keep them coming.

This is probably a classic over simplification, but I thought the forward cockpits of Vampires and Hornets were based on each other?

I’ll get me coat :o.

Isn’t this a Hornet/Sea Hornet cockpit.?

No these are single seat Vampire cockpits.

Considering what was there, I’m amazed that I only took 4 fairly non-descript photos during my Aug 1967 visit – I think ‘numbers’ were more important then. I remember being at the bottom of a large heap checking out an unstable pile of Vampire/Sea Vampire/Sea Venom pods that looked as if they had rolled down from the top. Fortunately someone had ‘felt-penned’ the serials in front of the wind-shield positions.

Isn’t this a Hornet/Sea Hornet cockpit.?

First photo is of a upside down Firefly.

Thks for that – There were a l-o-t of Firefly bits there then.

after some searching on the web, apparently “WF328” was a varsity :confused:

OR is that WP328?

WP328 Sea Balliol T21

Allied Aircraft Scrapyard, Tucson, 23-09-74

While I’m on a roll…..

Part of a 1974 Arizona tour was a very short visit to Allied (We had done 5 hrs in MASDC, then probably 2-3 in Pima, so Allied was about to close for the day when we arrived).

This sad site met us on arrival – 8 ex ANG A-26’s due for the chop!!

Nose of A-26B 44-34153 – Does anyone recognise the Nose-Art markings?

This should have once been TF-8A 143677 or 143809 (I haven’t got one coded 4 in my log and these are the only candidates left out of the 10 there) with another TF-8A 141359 of Reserve Air Wing 66 behind. Note F-104A fuselages behind

Some of the 9 ex USCG HU-16Es present follow….

ex 1265 HU-16E

I was photographing the F-104A fuselages honest, but I didn’t fancy negotiating with the ‘Guard-Goat’ to get nearer.

after some searching on the web, apparently “WF328” was a varsity :confused:

OR is that WP328?

First photo is of a upside down Firefly.

Re request for Quarrywood photos…..

Considering what was there, I’m amazed that I only took 4 fairly non-descript photos during my Aug 1967 visit – I think ‘numbers’ were more important then. I remember being at the bottom of a large heap checking out an unstable pile of Vampire/Sea Vampire/Sea Venom pods that looked as if they had rolled down from the top. Fortunately someone had ‘felt-penned’ the serials in front of the wind-shield positions.

I visited here on 1/11/64 – was involved in pulling flexible tanks out of Firebrand wings to read serials etc.(No – I can’t remember why!!) but DID NOT OWN A CAMERA then, to my eternal regret.

Glad you found your way here at long last…

Milnathort

Anybody have any photographs of the Scottish scrapyards at Quarrywood or Milnathort? Come on, Mr Whitton, you must have some?

I visited here on 1/11/64 – was involved in pulling flexible tanks out of Firebrand wings to read serials etc.(No – I can’t remember why!!) but DID NOT OWN A CAMERA then, to my eternal regret.

Ryan Field 1974

Not a scrapyard as such, since they were in the business of re-building C-47s but I visited here as part of a Tour to MASDC and the surrounding areas etc. in 1974.

I won’t post them all here since they already exist on the web, but I have a folder on Webshots at http://rides.webshots.com/album/562875102vMooIh showing most of the C-47s, C-53s & solitary C-117C and DC-3D present there at the time (or parts thereof – a half dozen or so were only rear fuselage sections with fins attached)

Still a sad site – I don’t think too many made it.

Yup, it’s Tucson. The image was from a new book by photographer Edward Burtynsky, illustrating man’s reliance on oil and the lansdcapes it has created. Thought provoking stuff.

I saw them in september. My son took a photo of them from the road. Just down the road is a car scrap yard with a jeep on top of a building. Not far from the museum at Pima