Amazing!

I fear those days are over, there was a time when the current RAF Museum German and Japanese types were run when they were kept at St Athan.

Yes i seem to remember reading that the RAF Museums Stuka and FW190 were regular ground runners, i think there was even feasibility work at the time of the BOB movie undertaken to see if the Stuka could be restored to flying condition for use in the movie.

Im guessing the FW190 has been sat in the bomber hall since the 80’s so is no longer a runner

Very interesting, thanks for the scan!

Yes very interesting place Enstone, its one of the few places now where you can explore with relative freedom compared to other similar sites. Some interesting items are the old control tower, original rifle range beyond the new airfield boundary and two APC’s on Northside grass.

Very friendly bunch of lads at Oxfordshire Sports Flying also!

Also found this interesting paragrath which adds to the imagination regarding what could still be out there!

Possible survivors
During the period of the war when He 177s were based in the occupied Soviet Union, a small number of Griffins were known to have force landed on frozen lakes within that territory, which then could have sunk to those lakes’ bottoms when spring thaws melted the lake ice. As no He 177s were to survive intact well past the end of the war (all known captured He 177 example aircraft, as well as the sole prototype He 274 in France, had been scrapped by the end of the 1950s) those possible sunken Griffins would be the only known surviving examples of the He 177 but none have yet been discovered as of 2007.

Note the word constructive peoples…lets not run down the RAF museum for the 100th time on this forum!