It’s hard to find anything after about 2009, but here are some preliminary restoration works including a rather nice piece of work on the fin.
http://www.toredgarolsen.net/skuapage.htm

At least there’s no monsoon season to get in the way…

How pathetic. What a lot of wonderful work gone to waste!

The Lightning had a pretty horrendous accident record in service even with the full might of large-scale RAF maintenance operations behind it.
It’s true that the SA incident is to some extent irrelevant, as the maintenance clearly wasn’t done to acceptable standards and isn’t really a model for how a Lightning would (or at least should) be operated in the UK. But it can’t help matters, and it serves to underline that in a Lightning, an awful lot can go wrong.
The Viggen seems to have had 29 major accidents (production run 329 according to Wikipedia), whereas the Lightning seems to have had 96 hull losses in service out of a production of 330-odd. So you’re looking at three times the accident rate.

I’d have thought that the Spey Phantom issue is more of a spares and design authority problem? The US government’s stance on F4 preservation re. Iran can’t be helpful either.

I have a feeling I asked the same question on the Victor/Nimrod thread, and the answer was no, there are no spare Victor Conways, and you can’t adapt VC10 units to fit. But may have remembered that wrongly…

The problem with Facebook and historic aviation, to me at least, is you have to go on there with some prior knowledge on what you’re looking for. If you know a bit about restoration X or company A, and want to follow them, then great. You can get more up-to-date information there if the owner of the group keeps it updated. But the huge advantage of this place is that you can open up the forum, and find somebody’s posted something you have never heard of or never even considered, and suddenyl you’re led down a whole new path of knowledge. If you can see past the predominance of Spitfire stuff (and heaven knows, that’s really valuable in itself) the range of content on here is huge. Because this is not a forum specifically or exclusively about Lancasters, Lightnings, or Vulcans, but instead encompasses anything under the broad umbrella of “Historic Aviation”, then it’s much easier to stumble across some new piece of knowledge. You can flit from an update from the Shuttleworth workshop in one thread, to a discussion about identifying German bomber crash parts, to a query about a particular Lancaster loss, to the depths of esoterica in “Wot plane” to a light-hearted thread about aviation films.
I still can’t think of another medium by which this range and breadth of knowledge is available in one place.

Outright rarities are no longer scrapped, they turn up at auction or are offered by an establshed dealer and head off all over the world..Mosquito,Tempest,Civilian coupe ,Moths and Tiger Moths,Sabre,Hurricanes,Spitfires.

Stuart’s example with the Blackburn kind of illustrates the point that only desirable or practical outright rarities get snapped up and head off all over the world.
The Lyneham Comet was a case in point, there are fewer Comets than Tempests, and this was the only survivor of its variant, but at the outset a Comet has less sex appeal than a Tempest, and in part due to years of neglect and a rather hurried disposal it became a far less practical proposition anyway.

It’s the rarities that are hard work to move and house, or those that didn’t have a Boys Own annual war career that are still trickling away by the decade. David is undoubtedly right in that the UK sector could do with taking a more joined-up approach to preserving these sorts of aircraft (the Shackletons, Valettas, HS Dominies, HP Heralds of this world) for the long term, and rationalising and reducing over-preservation. Some aircraft are undoubtedly over-preserved compared to others, there are a huge number of Canberras, Vulcans, Lightnings, Vampires, Hunters, Nimrods, Jet Provosts, Whirlwinds and Harriers in UK museums. It would be good to imagine a situation where, say, for the loss of a few Hunters and a Vulcan or two, or at least a few Super Mysteres, Vampire T11s and T-33s, we could fully safeguard the five remaining Victors and three Scimitars, ten Javelins or eleven-ish Shackletons; or get a VC-10 undercover.

But when you realise that this would involve museums relinquishing aircraft to others that are better placed to house them, or scrapping commoner aircraft to make room in hangars for rarer ones, and endless movements of aircraft around the country, you can see that it would be like trying to herd cats. The numbers of aircraft in preservation are undoubtedly going to diminish naturally over time towards a more sustainable level, and sadly as part of this I’m sure I’m going to see quite a few types go extinct in my lifetime.