Seahawk Photos from Lossiemouth circa 1954

Fantastic images – I wonder how many more are out there?!

Seahawk photos at Lossie circa 1954

Just for a change, a Sea Venom.

Seahawk photos from Lossie circa 1954

And another.

Seahawk Photos from Lossie circa 1954

And another

Seahawk Photos from Lossie circa 1954

Afraid these -photos are all jpeg, so will hav to come one at a time.

Sea Hawk Photos from Lossie circa 1954

Another photo from Lossie

Fantastic photos!

Al, is the area shown with the aircraft awaiting scrapping the same part of the airfield as used for all disposals/scrapping that took place during the 1950’s?

Yes, even 46 MU used this same area for scrapping Lancasters, as you can see in this 1946 photo. The dispersal is in the bottom left of this 1946 photo.

StuartH and I used to visit this dispersal frequently in the late 1960s/early 1970s, when the airfield was still HMS Fulmar, and the Navy used it as a fire dump. I can remember an all-gray Buccaneer sitting on its belly, and possibly a Hunter T8.
See also thread #30 of this post!
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=99389&highlight=east+fortune

In that first pic over Banff, there is a very distinctive circle marking on the the runways intersection (just in front of lead aircraft), anyone know what it was for, practice straffing or something maybe?

Here is a Lossiemouth SeaHawk at Acklington BoB 20 Sept 1958. WV910 738 Sqn. The Sea Venom behind is WW194 also 738 Sqn.

Very nice pics of the 804 Sqn Sea Hawk F.1s, thanks for sharing Bleeming!

Really nice, thanks for sharing

Great photos bleeming.. thanks for posting.

Al, is the area shown with the aircraft awaiting scrapping the same part of the airfield as used for all disposals/scrapping that took place during the 1950’s?

Extremely interesting historic images of my local airfield – many thanks for posting!
The first photo is of the five aircraft flying over RAF Banff (Boyndie) airfield – I scoured the large image for scrapped Mossies, but to no avail!
The third photo is of them inverted over Lossie, and between the centre two aircraft you can actually see aircraft awaiting disposal, possibly Sea Furys. A lot of them were only SOC and scrapped around 1963…

Oooh nice, which airfields are they flying over or is it the same one (Lossie)? And why the ‘target’ in the first photo, would that be for rotary wing?