Wellington restoration

Steady on old son, no need to apologise!

TT

From the red face department, so toTexanTomcat 2 I have to admit my total embarasment and thank you for setting the story straight. The details I had stored in my memory were collected a long tiime ago and I have to wonder how I got this all so wrong. I think the vital lesson is that one has be very wary of being so dogmatic. My profound regrets and apologies to one and all.

I think the history of her is very well documented…

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/69-A-171-Wellington-…

The Wellington was part of a collection of aircraft held at RAF Finningley in 1968. Also there was the BP Defiant and several (3?) Avro 707 aircraft. 

The Wimpey actually would have come in to Hendon by road possibly from Heathrow! It had, before that, been at Wisley for some time as someone in Whitehall decided that it and the others that had been repurposed into T10’s were simply redundant. Why Wisley? Because the contract for modification to T10’s to be carried out, was won by Vickers Armstrongs. I could be mistaken but from memory I think there were ten on the contract. This one was the last of the batch and it was completed and fully airworthy – my father did fly in it as flight test observer possibly 1954) as he did with many more off the production line at Brooklands 10 to 12 years before.

September 15th 1956 saw a Royal Aeronautical Garden Party held at Wisley. In a hangar there was a Scimatar behind a screen but in front of that screen  was the complete R.G.J. Nash Collection – except for his new item, the Wellington. It did not join the display that day! At that time the whole collection was understood to be stored in the British European Airways engineering hangar at London Airport as it was then named. I imagine that the collection was later dispersed around the UK. Quite possibly the Wellington went on to an RAF Base for some years until the Hendon RAF Museum was opened.

Sorry about the story creep here but I suggest it offers some more research into the largely forgotten NASH collection and what happened to it as well as the Wellington’s history pre Hendon.

No, it did’ t fly into Hendon. 

I doubt they put that much effort in, but didnt it fly into Hendon ?

Well done to them all , would it be feasible to be a ground runner ? 

Personally I wish they had suck to the originally mooted plan to restore it as a T10, but I am probably alone in that!

Rob

Superb, this was a great candidate to fly again but for obvious reasons it could not be done, would love to of seen it fly with BBMF or taxiable at East Kirkby