Moving is still a last resort. We’re planning to stay but making preparations to go if we have to.

While I’ve nothing but respect for Avro Heritage I can’t say that I think taking WR963 there would be a great idea. I would be very wary until I see more progress with XM603. Even then, I think with the developments at Woodford – keeping a live aircraft there would prove difficult.

A little update on the archive.

If everything works out, the archive for Type 696 and 716 Avro Shackleton aircraft (which includes all the original manufacturers drawings for MR1, MR2, MR3, T4 and AEW2; blueprint copies, the mod lists for all variants and various other bits of Shackleton paperwork) will be going ‘home’ to Woodford.

Regards,

Rich

Not good Rich – how on Earth would you move the old girl, never mind where?

It would have to be by breaking her down and moving by road. We looked at the other option of shifting an aircraft but its way beyond us at the moment.

Hi all,

Sorry for the lack of updates.. as you can probably guess we’re quite preoccupied with sorting things out for when our friends at Airbase head south.

We have a complete drawing archive to move (some 16 large boxes in the hangar, several filing cabinets, plus a room full of blueprint copies and manuals), we also have the parts stored on site to put back into storage before long.

Last but not least – should it be decided in the coming weeks that the airport will not be able to accomodate us for any reason we might have a Shackleton to move. Not a groovy thought and something that we’re all a little worried about, but so far all answers we’ve had on the subject of staying have been a bit vague and non-committal. 🙁

More information will be posted on here and our facebook page as we get it.

Regards,

Rich

Spot on. The major problem are the wing spars, and the small matter of the money required to do the job.

Regarding her future at Coventry, we’re still waiting to find out. We want to stay, but it depends if the owners of the airport are happy to let us once our friends depart for Cornwall.