Graham

Well done, good list, I have a few more for you,

26A – Swordfish
26AAA – Hector
26AC – Blenheim
26AH – Botha
26AK – Henley
26ALS – Tucano airframe
26AM – Hampden
26AR – Botha
26AS – Mentor and Magister
26AU – Lysander
26AV – Lerwick
26AW – Bombay
26AX – Manchester/Lancaster
26AY – Beaufort
26AZ – Defiant
26BE – Fulmar
26BF – Stirling
26BG – Harvard
26BH – Hudson
26BK – Albermarle
26BL – Whirlwind(fighter)
26BQ – Queen Wasp
26BS – B45 Tornado
26BV(1) – Vega Gull & Q6
26BW – Dominie and Rapide
26C – Ripon
26CB – Sioux
26CC – Hinaidi II
26CCC – Gladiator
26C* – Impressed aircraft
26CJ – F86 Sabre
26CP – Moth Minor
26D – Iris
26DD(1) – Dart
26DS – TSR2
26DY – Venom
26E – Fury
26EA – Lancaster/Lincoln
26EC – Warwick
26EE – Sedburgh
26EF – Hengist
26EG – Welkin
26EJ – Welkin
26EL – Firebrand
26EQ – Eton
26EX – Messenger
26EY – Kirby Cadet and Grasshopper
26EZ – Buckingham and Buckmaster
26F – Vimy
26FD – Spiteful
26FE – Prefect Glider
26FF(1) – Grebe
26FF(2) – Marathon
26FJ – Sturgeon
26FS – Wyvern
26FT – Athena
26G – Wapiti
26GG – Rangoon
26GRP – GRP Glider, Janus, ASW19, ASW21
26HH – Tomtit
26J – Whitley
26JJ – Battle
26JU – Expeditor
26K – Bulldog(Bristol)
26L – Nimrod(Hawker)
26LE – Gazelle
26LX – Lynx
26M – Cloud
26MA – Tornado GR1/F3
26MH – Vigilant
26MR – Jetstream
26N – Southampton
26NN – Gauntlet
26NS – Bulldog T1
26P – Audax
26PL – Hawk
26PN – Percival
26PP(1) – Avro 504K
26PP(2) – Test Benches
26PPA – Phantom Potential Assets
26Q – Tutor(Avro)
26QF – BAe airframe spares
26QQ(1) – Gauntlet
26QQ(2) – Gannet
26R – Sidestrand
26RDK – Lightning
26RM – Non-RAF Tornado common items(repairable)
26RP – Phantom recce pod
26RSH – Sea King airframe
26S – Vildebeast
26SG – swallow
26SP – Puma
26SS – Victoria(1)
26T – Hyderabad and Hinaidi
26TC – Tucano
26TS – Tristar
26TT(2) – to 26AE
26VB – Harrier GR5/7/10
26VN – Sea Harrier
26VV – Horsley
26W – Demon
26WW – Siskin
26Y – Flycatcher and Harrow
26YY – Gordon and Seal/A1F
26Z – Virginia
26ZZ – Atlas

As you can see some have been used more than once over the years, I don’t remember exactly where I copied this list from but it was at the time we were preparing to move out of Wroughton.
Will look at the 36 and 126 next

Kiss goodbye to another Shackleton if Mawgan closes….

Not in my expertise, and I don’t know what plans would be, but it wouldn’t be the easiest thing to move, without JCB intervention….

Just to put the record straight, at the moment, its the airfield that is for sale, that is the runway, tower and area around it, not the hangars and other buildings on the actual domestic site which are to be retained for the time being. The Shackleton at the moment is not under threat as it is as most people know near the front gate of the base itself on the south side of the runway.

They sent Bristol instead which I believe is now in turn rotting away as a training ship in Portsmouth, a class of light cruisers designed specifically to escort the Invincible class carriers but decided to be too expensive after just one was built.

The Bristol class were intended to escort CVA-01 before it was cancelled, not the Invincible class

correct me if I am wrong but I thought the Huey Cobra at Middle Wallop was captured during the Falklands campaign

The Huey(UH-1H) is a Falklands trophy, the Cobra(AH-1) is not, 2 different airframes

On another note, if the Scimitar(a naval aircraft that flew from decks) does not fit the collecting policy, how about the Etendard, Kfir and MB339 where do they fit in?
To say nothing about the other none naval US aircraft onboard the ship, or is there policy now to collect any US type that will bring in the punters, also where does Concorde fit in?

A few points

BA engineering look after the a/c, certain steps have been take to preserve the airframe.

Aircraft appearance team clean here pretty regularly

She was used to store out of hours engines in here bays before they were given to museum, hence the ballast in the front hold….its plastic sealed hi-life mags!

No Concordes have any significant fuel in them, Filton have 3T of ballast in forward hold. Cofg is only and issue with 4 engines fitted.

G-BOAB will move to T5, but airside, when it opens.

G-BOAB had the majority of her interior removed in 2002 for the Project rocket upgrade in 2002 (New toilets,galleys, wardrobes etc..), new fitting were in the process of being fitted when the work was halted pending Concorde’s retirement. Part of her pre-project rocket interior is now fitted inside G-BBDG at Brooklands.

BA’s retirement plan was to use G-BOAB as a marketing device at LHR and G-BBDG as a publicly accessible Concorde in the south east in a Museum environment. they had 8 Concordes on the books, but with only 7 interiors….and you could not expect any museum to restore G-BBDG without being able to fit an interior that allowed public visits and therefore a revenue stream.

The Concorde that need an eye kept on is G-BOAD in New York!

Saw G-BOAD on its barge last week, the plans for the new Pier 86 is to have the Concorde actually on the pier alongside the Intrepid when it returns from its ‘leave’ over in New Jersey in 18 months time, all this info from the display boards onboard the Intrepid

Opening times are 1000 to 1600 – entry is £4 for adults