Wales Aircraft Museum – Rhoose

The final items in the collection were scrapped in 1998 which were the three USAFM loan airframes.

Details on below SWAG Page

http://ciapoldiescorner.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/aircraft-of-wales-aircraft-museum.html

It closed as the land was too valuable to the airport

Thanks for your comments. I recall being their for about four weekends in 1984 helping where I could after they took delivery of my Provost.
The museum seemed to be well run and and a large group of enthusiasts were helping with the cafe etc.

The Proctor that I had in exchange was stored in a large shed on the Trostre British Steel Facility at Llanelli.
I dismantled it and towed it all back by trailer to my parents smallholding at Tumble, Cross Hands using a Ford Escort Van Mk 1!

Definitely mid-1990s – Vulcan XM569 was still listed as a complete survivor at Rhoose in a Vulcan book I have from 1993, around the time when XH558 was retiring first time around.

If this is the one adjacent to Cardiff airport, it was still open in 1991, as I was on my HGV driving course at St Athans and visited it s few times and took several photographs.

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Was originally called South Wales Historic Aircraft Preservation Society, I recall Dewi Jones and Dave Broadley on my visits as active members with regular exhibits at local schools. They managed to get a few aircraft under cover at RAF St Athan before the use of open ground by Rhoose airport.

https://forum.keypublishing.com/archive/index.php/t-56543.html
some background on that thread

Went a few times, others will remember but lack of man power, poor restorations, see air, corrosion, lack of money, forced move, redevelopment of land at a guess.

From memory it closed sometime in the early 1980s – Newark acquired their Sea Venom WW217 from Rhoose in December 1983!