am i right in saying, nothing is left in the area from the college ?

and after writing about buying in Poland, I read the whole thread and see you (Merkle) already aired the idea ! I blame the nice pics of the MiG….. I always read the pictures before the text ! ::p

Me too, LOL:D,
amazing how a pic of a nice Mig, can get me all hot a bothered,:o
I reckon men turn into boys again when they have settled down with a mrs,
here i am 36 years young, with teen daughters and a mrs, and i get more exitement looking at/working on nice planes than the mrs, LOL,
goes to prove, boys never grow up, just there toys get more expensive LOL,:p:D:):diablo:

Erm… Would there be any tax due at all, on import into UK? I can’t think why.

Why not look closer to home… like Poland. Museums often keep several of their ‘home’ types to swap aircraft with museums in other countries. They might consider selling one, or at least know where one is available. I mean… a museum in Poland may have enough on display, and be uninterested in others they know of in Poland. Poland is just a day’s drive from the ferry ports to UK.

Another idea… look at aircraft scrapyards in the East on Google Earth. I was in Riga a few years ago and saw a whole bunch of old aircraft parked in a paddock next to the airport. Didn’t notice any MiG-15s, though.

BU**ER ! Now I want one !

after i put that comment on about tax, I Realisd this only was with items from the usa.
I bought a original german tunic from the states, via e-bay for 300 quid , and was charged 80 quid tax for the privaledge of having it in the uk,
but being poland etc is part of the EU, i imagne there would be no tax to pay 😀

migs

id love 2 find some were that has a few for sale and buy with other people! that way the cost of shipping them over and work needed on them could be devided!
imagen have a small squadren of mig 15,17’s based 2getther at some were like brunters!!

yep i would love such a idea, but with everybody living so far apart, it looks almost impossible, unless we all live in a 50 mile radius ,
I live in bristol
uk 🙂

Not so much cockpits by themselves – at least not when it comes to MiG’s anyway. More often than not, a person will spot disassembled airframes like the ones in the photos below. These two (ex-Bulgarian) airframes were spotted by another warbird enthusiast last month just across the border frm me in east Texas. There is another complete example displayed out in front of an antiques shop about 50 miles up the road from these in a small town outside of Dallas.

There are at least 80 different MiG-17’s in the United States that I have traked down, and quite a few are still stored disassembled like this. Many are already becoming derelict after being acquired as “cheap” display pieces at smaller museums around the country. A person could pick up quite a few of them relatively cheaply if they were motivated to that end, but the cost of diasssembly, loading, trucking, and unloading would be more of the limiting factor. Honestly, if I had a place to put them (!) this would probably be a primary focus of mine – collecting these disrepected airframes on the cheap and storing them as investments for the future. Once you get your hands on one, concerns about long term storage become a very real factor in your game plan. I was limited to an old barn at the time of my first recovery. I’m about a year out from finally acquiring my own hangar finally, after which I may single out another airframe somewhere and give it another go. Still no budget to make a real bid at restoration and flying though. 😉

Must say Rob,
real nice pictures and
I Envy you, living in the USA there are so many warbirds lying around,
I wonder what it would cost to buy one fo these ex Display pieces that are falling apart ,like the ones you have mentioned,??
we dont really see them here in the UK,
I Imagine to purchase one ,Load it up, then transport to a dock ,put into a shipping crate, and ship to UK, Also the TAX on that when it arrives in the UK would be Prohibitive to most british enthusiasts,

Has anyone out there managed to do such a thing before on a shoe string budget ??(I know ,Dreaming Again) but i suppose i have wanted to own a Mig now for over 10 years, but never knew the contacts, in eastern Europe, or how to go about it, I tried Various Avenues, But allways hit a dead end, I must be doing something wrong ,especally when so many have made it to the USA from Europe :confused:

litchfield uk find early 90s

hi, i have a very good friend who in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

who found a complete aileron from a hawker typhoon, lying on the surface at litchfield, a town north east of birmingham city, UK ,I think ,

i met someone else who jumped down into a ditch there to take a pee, who bashed his knee on a “Armour Plate” from a typhoon there as well,

now i know there was a major scrapping operation there, many moons ago,
But my question is, 1= Does the site still exist and does anyone remember which fields it is in?, and 2, is anything left?, and 3 ,if there is a possibility of anything left, who would be keen on doing a magnetometer survey over th site (permission permitted) with me ,some time in th future ?,