Scrapyard Photos; Any More?

Might the small aeroplane with the G on the tail be Swedish? It looks like it could be a Swedish roundel on the fuselage.

Adrian

Could it be the tail of a Bucker Bestmann (their monoplane trainer/communications type) perhaps?

Paul F

It looks like an Anson by the door, with a Tempest as well. The “G” markeed aircraft is tough:confused:, retractable tail wheel, could be US “star” marking – P-47 does narrow down at the tail like that?

Is that an Anson by the hangar door.
At first I thought the aircraft with the G on the tail was a Thunderbolt but now it looks to small.

Might the small aeroplane with the G on the tail be Swedish? It looks like it could be a Swedish roundel on the fuselage.

Adrian

Thanks Dave,

Here’s one of RAF Sylt (no…it was Copenhagen-Kastrup*) taken in 1945. I’ve tweaked it all I can and hope some things are recognizable. Seems to be a JU88R (coded S) under inspection, the Liechtenstein can be seen in the original shot. Behind, an Auster coded 9 and the aircraft to the right with a G on the tail also has an 8 on the fuselage behing a large white circle. The airfield is littered (in the nicest way) with Tempests or Typhoons, with one in the circuit. There also seems to be a detonation in the background.

brgds
Alan

*Thanks to Kenneth #783 below

These are the Israeli ones -I saw them prior to departure for Israel at Hurn.

4X-FDG/91 1957 PR.16, NS742, registered in UK 5.56 as G-AOCJ to R. A. Short, Thruxton; to Hurn for overhaul 8.56; to Israel Air Force 1957 as 4X-FDG/91
4X-FDG/90 1957 PR.16, RG174, registered in UK 5.56 as G-AOCM to R. A. Short, Thruxton; to Hurn for overhaul 8.56; to Israel Air Force 1957 as 4X-FDG(sic)/90
4X-FDL/92 1957 PR.16, TA614, registered in UK 5.56 as G-AOCN to R. A. Short, Thruxton; to Hurn for overhaul 8.56; to Israel Air Force 1957 as 4X-FDL/92

On the subject of Mossies i seem to recall a pic of one dumped in the Clavering / Wicken Bonhunt area of Essex.. does anyone have anymore info and why it came to be there.?:confused:

These aeroplanes were the subject of a FlyPast article in the mid-eighties or thereabouts-someone will remember.

I recall the Mosquitos were bound for Israel, and one or more did fly off under the subterfuge of involement in a movie, as opposed to the illegal arming of an emerging nation-state.

A number of Mosquitos were dumped at Thruxton in the late ’50’s and I can recall G-AOCI, G-AOCK (marked G-AOOK), and G-AOCL. Apparently they were burnt in October 1960. Would be interesting to know which firm was involved, and why they were not progressed, since a couple of others at that time went to Israel (via Blackbushe I believe)

cheers
atb

From the research I have done (although the numbers of Typhoons seems a bit high) there were in excess of 900 Typhoons, 1500 B-24’s & B-17’s and unknown number of Mosquito’s and various other types. The site was very active with training and maintenance…this is probably where many of the Wellington parts came from.

Would be very interested for a further chat….sent you PM

cheers
Dave

fradley

mate of mine worked on the fradley site,for a car spares firm.one of his colleagues has apparently got a heaving loft full of dig ups!.i believe they broke up mainly wellingtons

Retreating Blade – I am going to have a guess at a former Speadadam T-33 jet. Sorry it’s took so long for a reply!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tqbUG0dmxfk

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No photos but I was cycling past a scrap yard on the national cycle route between Carlisle and Longtown about two months ago and caught a glimpse of a wing with a russian star and a large piece of fuselage. My totally non-aviation mates didn’t want to stop to investigate so I have no other info. Thought you might like to know.

RB

XP757 Owner

That first lightning cockpit in the pictures is a mk3 and is of xp757 which is being restored in stamford by martin chorlton .I know that cockpit personally .
The second one is definately a mk1 or 1a as defined by the gun blast tube vent on the side.

I thought XP757 was owned by Darren Swinn at Boston?

G-ANLO’s nose went after the SC.9 (1992), early to mid nineties.
The Harrier GR.3 was sold, reputedly for £17,000 (and people go on about SHAR prices!) in 1999/2000. This is when the rest of G-ANLO’s fusalage was scrapped.
XV237, I’m not sure what grounded this Nimrod, I know one aircraft was used for corrosion and fatigue investigation, so that may have been it.
It ended up in Orchards scrap yard in the 1992.
It probably was the Hastings you saw as that was the last piston heavy on the dump, the Shack MR.3 and T.4 were earlier.

Scrapyard photos

Wrecks & Relics 15 (and 16) stated that the Fire use only Fuselage was from Nimrod XV237.

I did drop them a line and in W&R 17 it was changed to state this was probably a Coment Fuselage, and this was subsequently changed to Comet G-ANLO.

Don’t know what happened to the nose, it definately went off the dump prior to 1999. I am wondering whether it was scrapped at the same time as the T4 and SC9 (1992).

My photo was taken in 1990, and I think it was moved out of sight within a few hours of this photo being taken. It may have been repositioned on the dump.

I have a photo of the T4 on the dump (when it was still on it’s undercarriage and a very blurry shot of the T4 and the B2) circa 1985. I also remember the crisped remains of a 4 engined prop airfraft in the early 80’s on the dump. I am guessing this was the Hastings. Anyone got any photos of the Canberra B2 or Hastings on the Dump??

Al the St Mawgan dumped aircraft pictured are shown earlier in the thread with serial numbers.
It is indeed the sole Comet 3 G-ANLO.
What I have never been able to ascertain is that the Cockpit section was removed from site a long time before the other fusalage sections. It was fairly complete aswel (yokes and panels etc), did it get saved I wonder?

A few from RAF St Mawgan during the 1990s.
Comet??

Yep, G-ANLO as mentioned earlier in this thread

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=36444&page=19

and your photo more or less confirms to me (at least!) that G-ANLO WAS the fuselage used in the AEW mock up also shown in the thread! (The remains of the Nimrod fairing can be clearly seen!)

Thanks for that!!

The CF-100 shot was definitely taken in Scottish Aviation’s scrapping area around 1963/64. I remember it well!