Machrihanish is now known as Cambletown airport.
I don’t know it they were ever separate.
Anybody?
If not, you can combine those two and lose another ‘uncertain’
Moggy

Machrihanish is indeed termed Campbeltown Airport. Used to be RAF Machrihanish (still is officially I think) and before that, during the war, it was HMS Landrail under the FAA with Firelies and the like. The airfield always has been and continues to be, Campbeltown’s airport, even during the war years (Dragon Rapides, Short Boxvan(?), Handley Page Friendships(?) or Heralds or the like (Maybe Fokker!) – apart fron the Rapides, dont know about GA stuff.

The USAF, USN and USMC all have had a presence there and have had since the mid 60s early 70s. And there remains a US (actually MoD) ‘controlled’ area on the airfield (the infamous ‘Black Hangar’).

Confirm a tower, WWII with modernisations I understand.

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Pondskater. It’s pretty much as I said in my post. Official photos are Crown, photos by individuals are theirs.

The NA statement “All material from The National Archives’ sources which are published, broadcast or displayed are subject to a reproduction fee” refers to a reproduction fee, not explicitly to a copyright fee. This is perfectly sensible as such an archive/organisation would charge an admin fee anyway (nowt’s for free).

Also, recalling my years as a Technical Author when I had to make, source and use corporate images. Any corporation, company, museum, and even individuals can purchase, or have passed over to them, the copyright rights to negative/print collections. (Albert may know about this aspect). If the copyright issue wasn’t negotiated at the time of purchase/transferr of the collection you need a better lawyer! :rolleyes:

Regarding images from WWII aircrew/personnel, and with regard to time limitations, any official image is Crown; with personal pics by/of/from these chaps copyright is theirs.

Regarding an image taken by an individual. If this individual took the image(s) in the course of his/her work, ie by being asked or tasked to take it by their boss, the image copyright is vested in the company they work for – same as any bright ideas an individual has during employment. I took a couple or three rolls of 35mm of the DeLorean car under developmant at Lotus (did the manual for the thing). They are quite interesting but I cannot readily reproduce them willy-nilly as the copyright is not mine. Even though the images were taken by me for my exclusive use at the time, copyright belongs to the company I worked for. It just so happens I held onto the negs when the company changed a few years later. :rolleyes:

However, having said all that, the copyright laws in this country are complex and even arcane. Best to explore and pin down the details of your own need before commiting. Anything said in this thread should be regarded as advisory only, not a legal position. I mean, if you get into trouble it’ll do you no good trying to cite the Flypast Forum in your defense.

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And of course . . .

. . . the ever present (and weather proofed) Canberra PR.3, WF922
Notice not sitting on its tail!

Pic by sengo

😉

Gratuitous Canberra

Where does this fit in with historic aviation?

In this way!
(Pic by sengo)
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Some quite laudable replies, and some a tad fanciful too.

Damien’s got the right idea, a ‘do-able’ project that has a ‘forgotten’ history and commemorates those that came before.

For myself, (and in the same vein), I’d opt for a fully airworthy Avro York, or a fully airworthy HP Hastings, to commemorate all those thousands – men and machines – that took part in the Berlin Airlift.

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WH964

Does anyone know what the current state of this aircraft is?

I too would be interested in the state/location/pics of this E.15.

Here’s a Michael Hall picture of it at an undisclosed airshow when it was on 98 Sqn. Pic is pre-27 Jan 1982 which is the date of its last flight.