I was told (many moons ago) that when a Buccaneer had been completed at Brough, they were towed with wings folded along a main road to an airfield a few miles away. Was this true?
mmitch.

Certainly true

see here http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?3931-RAF-Holme-on-Spalding-Moor-Yorkshire

All, can we just remind ourselves. At no point has the Midland Air Museum indicated its doing anything different with this aircraft.

Mark,

The comment has been noted, however the thread has given an opportunity for the issues associated with the potential disposal of the NMUSAF loan aircraft to be discussed.

Perhaps the title of the thread would be best altered to reflect the wider topic that has been highlighted and discussed

it could have been moved on quite quickly.

Bruce

In theory this is correct.

However in practice re-allocating an aircraft that is on the books of the USAFM such as these is not easy.

There appears to be no one in the USA who can sanction moves of these airframes.

I am sure that Bentwaters Museum would willingly have the F100 from Headcorn. I also know that at least one other museum is reviewing the need to retain their 3 USAFM loan aircraft and are having problems in sorting out any sensible solution. There is no clear path for re-allocation outside of national collections and the risk is that the aircraft will be sent to Molesworth for destruction, which may also be the fate of the OH58 Helicopter that has recently gone their from Shrivenham

XH767 at Norwich

http://www.paulnann.com/Location.asp?Location=Norwich&ImageRef=pn_w2204.jpg

Gerry,

Can you not order them online from the National Archive.

I think it is only £3.30 for each month

I wonder if it is the one at Elvington as it may have moved temporarily from Monkton Farleigh where it was with the Avon Aviation Museum before going to the City of Norwich Museum

I believe that some of the Avon Aviation Museum members were also involved with the Meteor Flight at Yatesbury.

I can not think of any others that would have been in a dismantled condition around that time and can not remember the Javelin being assembled

See here http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=17606

She is wonderfully significant in the history of the type in the U.K

Absolutely agree which is why I gifted to Solway many years ago when it was at risk of becoming a children’s plaything.

Thanks to Bill Fern from South Yorks for collecting the airframe on a Hiab and taking it to Carlisle as part of a three way swap which resulted in a few other bits moving round to various museums

[QUOTE=WH904;2189218]Tin, how can they defend ignoring XT597, especially when they have a research aircraft collection?

The powers that be are not ignoring it, the aircraft is privately owned just like the Boulton Paul BP111A which sits outside at the Midland Aircraft Museum and perhaps deserves a space at Cosford ahead of XT597.

The RAF Museum at Hendon has a Phantom just as it was in service. Therefore there is no strong driver to add XT597. Much as I would like to see XT597 in a museum this will only happen if the buying price is met, as the price reflects the cost of acquisition and moving to Bentwaters and storage in the interim. I do not think the current owners are making absolute fortunes out of the small number of airframes that seem to find new owners. I for one can not remember the last aircraft to be scrapped by Everett’s. I would hazard a guess that they have scrapped less than Hendon, Cosford and Duxford together.

With respect to the Dornier, it is the last of the type and no doubt is intended to go to Hendon eventually. Whether it is worth the cost of recovery and restoration only time will tell. To my mind there is no undue bias to WW2, if this was so the RAF Museum would not have spent over £100,000 in moving the Nimrod by road to Cosford.