Scrapyard Photos; Any More?

Please trouble away with more Pendine pictures!

As for the logic of transporting dead airframes for long distances- it is taxpayer’s money we’re talking about here..

DD

Not exactly a scrapyard but I suppose MOD Pendine was just about that and XP748 the old Binbrook gate guard finished her days there.

I won’t trouble you with more Pendine pictures but one question I have is how did the airframes get there? At first I surmised they were flown into Brawdy and then transported onwards but 748 blows a hole in that theory as no way would it have been capable of flight and must have been sent by road which was an awful long trip for a dead airframe just to be hacked up or blown apart.

Is that the one up near Dubbo (or Wagga – can’t remember which !)

while on the subject of Neptunes, i have some photos about somewhere i took last year of an ex-RAAF Neptune parked in a field next to a highway!

it looks for all the world as if it had flown there too

This photo is what a friend from work told me he had taken at a scrap yard in South Dakota, He had stopped for a ‘fag’ on the side of a road, and saw this aircraft in “what appeared to be a scrap yard” (his words) and so took this photo’ this is the only one as he was threatened by someone within the fence with a fierce looking dog !!!! Ummm ????

Keith.

Does indeed look like F-86’s behind the Sea Fury. A quick bit of googling suggests the location to be Lasham then as that is where the Sea Fury met its end as well as surplus RAF F-86’s that werent sold to Yugoslavia.

Jon

Except that the F-86s do not seem to have RAF marks, in that there are serials on the fins. I can see “178”, “642” and “72”.

Laurence

The Lysander in G-ASEA’s photo was restored and flown for a short time in the US in the 1970’s. She’s now displayed at NASM.

Could the Lysander be one of those on the famous farm in Canada owned by I think it was Ernie Simmons.
The Sea Fury appears to have what might be F-86 fuselages behind it.
Perhaps someone else knows more?

Does indeed look like F-86’s behind the Sea Fury. A quick bit of googling suggests the location to be Lasham then as that is where the Sea Fury met its end as well as surplus RAF F-86’s that werent sold to Yugoslavia.

Jon

Could the Lysander be one of those on the famous farm in Canada owned by I think it was Ernie Simmons.
The Sea Fury appears to have what might be F-86 fuselages behind it.
Perhaps someone else knows more?

Two photos i got of evil bay

Two Let 410s and an F-5 fighter. Not sure what’s between the 410s though.

Mombasa , Kenya March 2011
Not the best pics, taken through a moving airliner window.
What far away airfield doesn’t have a forlorn looking DC-3 ? in this case two, the second hiding behind the 707

not sure of these two, Embrier ? (sp?) Something historic hiding behind these two as well (not derelict)

Argosy at Ewas Harold

The Argosy on page 42 of this thread , has this gone or is it still there and if so in what condition.

I was in that scrapyard last July; it was almost empty. It’s strange, right in the middle of a built-up area which I suppose has grown up around the yard. There was only a very intact Canberra PR9 centre fuselage (XH177 I think) and some fragments of Hastings and Shackleton left. Whilst I was there a Transit pickup was leaving, loaded with scrap including a Canberra engine air intake. I guess that the yard will have been cleared completely by now.

I understand that some of the Malta military vehicle guys rescued some of the wartime vehicles but I don’t know if any aircraft parts were rescued.

I was offered the PR9 section for €500, but just WHAT do you do with one if you haven’t got any other bits?

Malta, I would say.

Just a few photo’s to wet the appetite there are or were until last year many different types still in this scrap yard including Hastings,Canberra,Stuka (JU87),Sea Hawk,An unknown US aircraft and lots of unidentified stuff buried under old scrap vehicles and dock yard stuff last moved in the 1960’s.Yes the last photo you are not seeing things.We also pulled out wing parts from another aircraft of the same type,and at least one engine brand new just someone had put a lump hammer through the sump we had to remove it in bits as when we went back some one had surrounded the yard with houses.

Before you all start packing your bags these photo’s taken in 1993 I will try to post some more including underwater ones if I can get them to look decent enough

Well, even though most of the scrapyards here are of military aircraft, here is one section of our old salvage yard for (mostly) older civil aircraft. There was an average of 70 or so hulks at any given time. Sometimes the hulks were sold off for restoration projects, other times they were dismantled for various parts, bulheads, extruusions, fittings etc. Sometimes they were used for TV and films. When buying the salvage for our yard, focus was either on restoration projects, or a usable engine or parts engine, engine, major parts (wings, tails , surfaces etc) intruments, avionics etc.
The yard contained a lot of pre-WWII aircraft fom PT-19 and 22, Fairchild 24, pre-war Pipers, etc. Lots of early Cessnas (including a couple of “Bamboo bombers” and from 120 up, Piper, all models of early Beechcraft, Aeronca, all models of Luscombes, Early aero Commander, Stinsons, Sea Bee, Bonanzas, and even the odd King Air and Lear jet, the occassional Stearmans, Porterfields, Rearwin Cloudster & Speedster, Travel Air, even had a 1911 built Bleriot.The building in the back held stacks of dismantled parts, and 175 different pre-WWII aero engines and some WWII (Including 24 cyl Allison and a couple of Argus “Power Eggs” -firewall foreward, units, including cowls mounts & props for Argus V-12s) *and 395,000 pieces of WWI German/Austrian WWI aircraft parts!

Finally one that has puzzled me for a long time. I snapped this Tornado wreck at RAF Abingdon on the way out from the BoB display on 15 Sept 1990 but have never been able to trace its identity. Anyone have any thoughts?

I reckon that’s probably ZD710 a GR.1 which crasked into a field on the other side of the A34 after a bird strike which took out the engines while taking off from Abingdon 14 September 1989.

[QUOTE=blackjet604;1716763} Forlorn and almost forgotten, a very pretty Beechcraft, once a businessmans’s dream lies wrecked and parted in the apex of brakes and wheels to the right and flaps to the left. This was N700M BA-54 an E-18 that was wrecked to the day 8 Mar 82…2 fatalities, but circumstances unknown.

This is either N700M accident 3Oct1983 or N700W 8Mar1982. See:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001214X44740&key=1
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20020917X02144&key=1

So, which is it?

Just a link to the Arc modellers forum that has similar for the USA

http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=216956

Blackjet, look at last page of link.