607 is a rot box. I went in it in 1995, worked on it in 1997, last went in it in 2005.
It was wet and mouldy in the mid nineties but fairly complete. Two years later we were drilling holes in it to let out the gallons of trapped rainwater, and patching the heavily corroded skins and a decade ago it had been robbed “significantly” to service 558. There is massive intergranular corrosion on the main spar, it won’t move again I wouldn’t have thought.
This, I went in her in 1999, cockpit was gutted damp and corroded to hell sadly. The Flt Sgt that showed me around used to work on them and told me/was bragging that she was on his inventory and he was in charge of looking after her. My first thought as a fairly fresh faced Fairy SAC was “Why the hell has she been allowed to deteriorate so badly?”
Ironically 15 years later I’ve been in the cockpit of XH673 at Marham recently, and she is not great but still in better shape than 607 was years ago.
I’m surprised she was moved to the other side of the airfield, there was questions about her structural integrity in 1999.
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