Do you consider Iceland part of Scandinavia?:cool:

What is your criteria for vintage aircraft? Only old military stuff, or civilian as well?:o

Goodmorning Galdri, yes I’m quite open to our Islandic brothers.
In particular since Iceland was part of the Danish Kingdom, when these planes were made and first operated.

Both military and civilian. Should we say before 1956, thats when they stopped making Chipmunks?

Considering that the Draken is fairly rare (outside Scandinavia), you would think that it would be possible to use those aircraft in museum trades.

AFAIK Sweden (like Denmark) has a state run military collection, who would be in a prime position to acquire these aircraft (if they do not own them already). Swedish museums might have Drakens aplenty (in Denmark every museum with a hint of technology seem to have one), but surely they are tradable abroad.

Are we still in the cold war days, where decommissioned should be visible on satellite images, or is it simply too complicated to export these aircraft as never-to-fly-again static display items?

Its VERY expensive to recover anything from that loaction. I’m pretty sure the owner of the engines have done the figures and decided to wait.

But eventually I think the remains will be recovered. The entire wing section is relatively undamaged.

It would be a prefect venture for the new breed of airship builders. Just glide up there; lift the whole thing and glide back……cheap and safe.

It would also be good advertisement for the kind of job those airships can do.

Here is a link to surviving CL44. Including the guppy.

http://www.cl44.com/cl44/Survivors.htm

Lovely picture!