WJ874 had a check on Sunday and all systems appear to be ok, including engine gearbox oil etc. I don’t know of any plans for the aircraft at present.

Thankyou Rich. We try our best!

Can I also thank all the photographers who were impeccably behaved, the best I’ve ever known.

Under normal circumstances we would have more than welcomed everyone to have a look around the hangers, unfortunately the public end of hanger 7 is currently full of lots of aircraft in a heavily dismantled state and it was just not really safe for us to let people in. The other advantage of having all these aircraft outside is of course that the other end of the hanger was virtually empty so in future if its possible we will try and position some of the aircraft that are perhaps ‘less exciting outside at night’ in such a way that you can get good open shots of them lit by the hanger lights. 🙂

Thanks for the heads up Peter. 🙂

DC6

Venom

Hello Anthony, glad you enjoyed it and great photo’s. This was a first for us and seemed to go down well. All comments and suggestions would be welcome so we can learn and try and incorporate them into a future event. 🙂

I wish the team the best of luck. It’s going to take a lot of work and a lot of money but I hope they achieve there aims especially as we enter this time of financial uncertainty. My understanding of a few of the points raised in this thread are that firstly Air Atlantique hold the design authourity for the aircraft, there is certainly a Shackelton Design Office at Coventry. There is a large spares holding available for the aircraft. The main spar will need to be replaced in order for the aircraft to recieve certification from the CAA to fly, the same as WL790 would have needed and the same reason why she was not allowed to be ferried back to this country.

Slightly confused by the comment in brackets? If I start a new thread then someone will say ‘why not use the search engine and use the old thread’ and then when you do you get that comment. Thankfully I’m not so severe on the forums I run…….:confused:

I’m not meaning to have a real dig as I know how hard it is to moderate and run forums, just the comment seems OTT!

Were these the aircraft that used to be at 1 s of TT ,RAF halton? I have a course photo circa 1986 taken in front of these jets- not sure if that’ll help though!!!

According to Wrecks & Relics 13th Edition, XN699 and XP921 were ex-Halton.