All StART’s airframes have now left the Boulton Paul Aircraft Heritage Project. The Balliol cockpit WN534 is in our Boulton Paul workshop at Otherton, the Misselthrush fuselage is in our Cadet Hangar there, and the Jet Provost and Canberra T.17 cockpit are at Baxterley.
The BPA stuff still awaits transport to Cosford. To the very last we were fighting to stop Boulton Paul hardware being thrown in the skips, including Concorde PCU units, but were mostly thwarted.
Incidentally, yesterday I counted six Hercules fuselages at Hixon, not four, or are my eyes deceiving me ?
By: Wulfie - 12th April 2013 at 05:02
The decision has already been made, N3378 is going to the RAF Museum. I would suspect it will go on a shelf at RAF Stafford, so it will be indoors, gathering dust. As I personally collected every part of it, from all over the country, including six tramps to the top of Bleaklow Moor, I am not at all happy about it, but there’s nothing I can do.
By: DiverScout - 11th April 2013 at 19:00
Right, well, having seen things like this before – before it ends up in a skip under the excuse that there was nowhere for it to go I would like to make a public offer of undercover storage for the remains of N3378.
By: Wulfie - 11th April 2013 at 17:09
I would like to say that the wreckage of N3378 is carefully packed up to go to Cosford, but in fact it’s literally in a heap on the floor of the main factory, but then many in BPA only think of it as scrap metal anyway. Some if it actually came from the RAF Museum when they had a clear out at Cardington, now it’s being give back to them.
The Night Fighter Preservation Team’s engine and prop have been returned to them, and I would like to personally thank Alan Hague for the loan of that.
By: Thunderbird167 - 11th April 2013 at 11:16
Incidentally, yesterday I counted six Hercules fuselages at Hixon, not four, or are my eyes deceiving me ?
I think some of the ones that were at Bruntingthorpe may have moved to Hixon such as XV301 according to www.demobbed.org.uk
By: critter592 - 11th April 2013 at 10:26
What has happened to the wreckage of Defiant N3378, which was displayed as a crash diorama?
By: Wulfie - 11th April 2013 at 05:14
pm me, and I will let you know when we are there, which we usually are every Sunday.
By: igbfn - 10th April 2013 at 17:24
Thanks Alec
Is there any chance I can arrange to see the Grasshoppers & Balliol at Baxterley please?
Are these at the airfield, Charity Farm?
By: Wulfie - 10th April 2013 at 17:15
The Defiant/Balliol/P.6 FSMs, and Hunter T.7 cockpit, all owned by the Boulton Paul Association, are packed and ready to be loaded on 24th, for shipment to Cosford on 28th. The Overstrand cockpit FSM is still at Halfpenny Green in Westbeech’s hangar, but the committee have apparently refused Westbeech’s offer to house it for free, and want it to go to Cosford as well, or rather a couple of the committee have.
The Grasshoppers are at Baxterley.
By: igbfn - 10th April 2013 at 17:05
Hi Alec
What has happened to the two Grasshopper’s; Hunter cockpit; DEfaint; & B-P P.6 Replica please?
By: DiverScout - 9th April 2013 at 17:51
Always annoying when “heritage” organisations throw away things that other groups would take on…
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