Barbados is a supprise as apart from the Dak on the fire dump there are no non airworthy aircraft on the island so no experience of looking after it. They were doing a lot of building work at the terminal on my last trip a couple of months ago so I guess it will be incorporated into that? It certianlly needs it as it airport was a S******le. It was certianlly a hell of a experience at BGi when Concorder landed. Hundreds of people all ingoring the nor parking at the end of the runway signs. The fence is only 300yds from the threashold!Excellent!

Its all about money from what I know. Somebody brought the site and wants to make a fortune. Its a terrible place for an airport. The topography is dangerous and is very prone to fog. LGW outbounds go over the top at 2000.
Why not utilise those places allready with hard runways Farnborough,Biggin, North Weals, Stansted and Dunsfold.
Only one good thing is we might get a viewing area as its nothing to do with the BAA!!!!

The last complete Halifax was PN323 which existed at Radlett until the mid 60’s it was eventually scraped as there was no where for it and the nose went to the Skyframe musuem and eventually to the IWM. I would guess the Egyptians might have had the last flyer. After the Berlin Airlift most of the G- ones were scraped(last one in service 1952) but 13 were sold to Egypt in 1950 as paratroop transports.

If I look in wrecks and relics 3rd edition(1968) the loads of Horsas were used on farms around Brize Norton and Cosford.
In old issues of the Aeroplane spotter….
DH91 Albratross fuselarge survived at Burton, Wilts in 1946 along with some prewar light aircraft.
The last AW27 Ensign pre war airliners was broken up at Hamble in 1947 after all but two were flown back from the Middle East.
Believed to be the last Blackurn Roc L3084 used as a wingless engine testbed at Eastleigh summer 1946.
Last prewar flying boat was indeed the Golden Hind G-AFCI which after years of storage at Rochester was towed to Hamble for overhall in May 54 but sunk in the channel in a gale.

My dream is that one of the 20 Vickers Vimy Commercials shiped to China in 1920 and never uncrated will one day be found and reyurned home.

I had heard that the LGW situation was only tempoary. It was due to building work below the deck and it was due to health and safety.The BAA situation is crazy. I think that the deck at LGW a few years ago was the south’s second busiest tourist attraction in terms of number of visitors. The trouble is that they think we will just go away, we wont. I have been spotting for 26 years and don’t intend to give up now. We need to point out that they could actually make money out of us from entry changers,food and shops.
BAA now have Southampton which has gone the same way. The newish multistory carpark now has CCTV and security guards remove anybody within 5 minutes.
The trouble this attitude is spreading to light airfields too. One of my locals, Fairoaks, used to be the ulimate spotter unfiendly place now its become the norm. Redhill used to be a good place, now its no go, same with Goodwood,Stapleford,White Waltham amd Biggin Hill.

Over the last few days
Lasham
OO-DHR 727 DHL
OO-DHN 727 DHL
both to go to Indonesia
N289AN 757 all white
SX-BVM 757 Air Scotland
VP-BAA 727 private

If we include bizjets
Farnborough
P4-VVP EMB135BJ
ES-NOB AN72
D-COSA D328
G-FMAH FOKKER 100 re registered from N856US
N50TG DA2000
N106BA DA900
N800DW DA20
VP-BLB DA900
N157H G4
N43HJ PREMIER
G-BUKA METRO
N93M G5
BBJ’s A6-DAS,A6-LIW,A6-HRS,AR-MRM,VP-BZL,G-OBBJ
A319CJ A6-HRS,F-GSVU
overflights
D-AIMB A330 DLH
C-GHLA 767 ACA
N761DA 777 DAL
F-GSPF 777 AF
N589FE MD11 FDX
N5010P 767 DL
D-AIGH A340 DLH

I live at Farnborough and spot everyday so I could put loads. Off to Stansted,Luton,Duxford,Cambridge and loads of light fields for the next 3 days.

I went on a orginazed tour of Belgrade in 1989. Superb museum if in a bit of a strange building. Lots off WW2 stuff(Spit,Hurricane,Me109 etc), some nice commercial stuff outside. JU52,Li2,DC3,Caravelle,Dove,Convair,IL14 and a Short Sealand.
We had a tour of JAT maintiance and the light aircraft. There were a couple of airforce YAK 40’s, most of the JAT fleet including ATR’s, all the DC10’s and the light stuf, Cessna 402’s,Agcats and AN2’s!
We didn’t see too much foreign visitors but did manage one of my only 2 Interflug 134’s( I saw them all after the fall of the wall at SCO).
We also did Zagreb managing to get detained by the authorities( a whole coatch of us!) for a hour. Somehow we kept braking down on the motorway opposite the Yougoslav AF AN26 ramp.

This is some ‘unofficial’ ifrormation on the last day at LHR. I would hope there would be some flypasts at Filton,Fairford and Farnborough on the way?

‘As you are probably aware, Concorde is due to make its final landings at Heathrow on Friday 24 October. BA want to mark the occasion with 3 successive landings – scheduled from 1500 UTC. We have been asked by BA if (on westerlies) we could accommodate their PR by descending to 3000ft over
the City, and running the three a/c in sequence from approx. 20 miles out.’

Sounds good 3 concs in the air at the same time. I think parking will be at a premium at LHR that day. Hopefully they will be on 27R so to view from the visitors centre??