Well if anyone does get themselves a Wessex cockpit section, get in touch, I’ve a number of items stored in my shed. I had the intension of doing one myself untill XV677 came along.

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Nigel

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Thanks Very much for posting the new pics, good to see, I wasnt enquiring if it was for sale though, as I had thought it had a good home, so to speak, interesting the guy who owns it used to fly it .. bet he could tell some interesting yarns….

I actually think , a wessex or whirly cockpit are one of the best sized, for manouverability .. the cockpit is quite small, when it is just a cockpit, where as most fighters you have all that nose and engine air intakes to carry around,

Found this, believed to be a Wessex, outside a shed at Bournemouth in 1995. Have no idea where it came from or where it went. Inside was full of bits and pieces and the only identification I could find was on a panel marked XT487, But I know that’s a shot in the dark..:)

Now THAT i Just LOVE.. i wonder what happened to it ??:confused:

I did try , very hard to obtain a wessex cab, wrote to loads of places, phone was red hot, but to no avail, sadly, you just dont see many wessex hulks up for grabs very often, .. there are quite a lot still with the MOD . for various reasons, many are in use for fire/rescue drill, there are a couple however, who i wonder are actually used at all, ?… one day the dsa or the like will dispose of them, roll on that day, hope i have a full wallet, lol.. :diablo:

You may have already seen this but NEAM has just aquired a Wessex (full airframe). Don’t know exactly where from but judging by the pics it will need a fair amount of TLC 🙂

Ex Lasham 🙂

Not sure how you come to that conclusion Merkle, I would say it’s the other way around from years ago when you could see loads of aircraft stacked up in scrapyards.
look at how many Jaguars, second gen Harriers, Tornados, and even two Typhoons there are in museums or private hands.
There are an awful lot of Tonkas out there, so a lot are likely to get scrapped.
I think the Nimrod threads will show how the MoD are allowing aircraft to be saved for preservation.

Perhaps i worded my statement wrong .. 😮

I understand, the BAAC, and many fine museums, and some organisations, have managed to secure some smashing aircraft for preservation. and rightly so, I also realise a aircrafts future is at a much better status in the hands of a museum than say a private individual,

but it seems .. i may be wrong, that to approach the mod, for example ,and say “instead of shredding that one, do you mind awfully if you would let me buy the cockpit to restore for display???” for instance or say a range target, ie the meteor on sennybridge.. and someone offered cash, rather than seen it scrapped, it seems a very beaurocratic awkward system to get into, and unless you are in there system, your inquiries fall on deaf ears ???. i suppose, i would ask.. or should have asked, what about a PRIVATE individual apporaching a Govt department/contractor . MOD for such a thing, as and when a suitable item arises.. How does He/she go about putting in a bid, etc to secure a item, that they require, a person who does not own a company, or licences for scrapping etc , just joe bloggs on the street, who wants to purchase a scrap Military “BIT” of plane :confused:

it all just seems a ball of red tape … I could be wrong though ??.. its just knowing how to do such a venture ?

i didnt think you could buy Tornado fuselages, ??. I thought they now shred them, in the scrapping process… considering how many have been up for scrap in the past couple of years, you dont see many surviving fuselages in private hands ???:confused: