Propstrike,

Sadly, having built up a sizeable book collection over the past 35 years, I have come around to agreeing with you. Unfortunately nowadays, many books seem to almost worthless, as well as a considerable burden to sell and ship. 🙁

The other Connie was purchased by the HARS Group in Australia for spares. There was some talk about moving it to Australia for static display. No idea who owns the DC-4s I’m afraid. When visiting Tuscon 3 or 4 years back I rented a C172 and flew over there to shoot them all from the air, one of the shots appeared in FlyPast at the time.

Not so, the B-52 landed several years after the runway was truncated.

Lyonsajh,

The airliners are owned by the Duxford Aviation Society, not the IWM. Their collecting policy is purely post-war British airliners (Comet, Concorde, Britannia, Viscount, Ambassador, Dove, Herald, BAC 111, Trident, York, VC-10, Hermes fuselage). They stopped adding exhibits a couple of decades ago and quite frankly have their work cut out looking after what they have, many of which are doomed to outside display. It is rather a shame that they couldn’t have added examples of the Jetstream 31/41, HS 748/BAe ATP and BAe 146/Avro RJ, the final British-built airliner types, though.

American types such as the Boeings fall outside their collecting policy, and would soon become an eyesore and a liability as they slowly rot into the dirt – just look at what happened to the BA/Cosford collection. 🙁

There had a nice venue for smaller events with the refurbished Officers Mess, I went to quite a few events there in the 80s and 90s. Sadly it now appears to be semi-derelict once again 🙁

What’s a PN323?

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