Hello,
I’m trying to find out some information about the aircraft ‘yard’ at Charlwood. I understand that the site has been, or is being redeveloped for housing. Does anyone know what happened to the aircraft that were there? I’m particularly interested in the location of a Hawk XX257? Does anyone know if the aircraft are still there? Do these aircraft belong to Aerospace logistics, and if so, has anyone had any dealings with them?
Any help would be greatfully received.
Many thanks
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By: VX927 - 8th February 2014 at 14:25
Thank you very much for your reply. That seems am extremely high price for a scrap, crashed hawk!
By: Peter Mills - 8th February 2014 at 08:50
Hi,
“the yard at Charlwood” is Aerospace Logistics, they had another yard at Faygate a couple of miles away, that has been cleared and the owner has built a house on it.
Planning permission to build houses at the Charlwood location was given a short while ago and I understand that will go ahead.
Gatwick Aviation Museum was offered the Hawk on permanent loan or to purchase for £80,000. We don’t take permy loans and didn’t feel that the price reflected the value. We did ask about the Jag XX121 but that has been promised somewhere else. As far as I know there have been no movements out of the site in the past few months, we can presume that eventually the airframes there will be disposed of fairly soon since they only have three years to commence building.
By: VX927 - 8th February 2014 at 00:21
Can anyone else shed and light of this for me?
By: Dean W - 4th February 2014 at 09:53
Has the redevelopment started recently? Demobbed still lists the airframes, including XX257, at the yard although the last update on that location was September 2013!
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February 3, 2014 at 9:42 pm