It’s definitely not Blackpool. BKS suggests Newcastle, for sure. The BUA Herald would not have been on a Heathrow run, though (the Ambassador would), and it looks like they’re getting on that. If it is Newcastle the pic would be the day after the gig, so that makes it 22/5/66. the next date on the Dylan tour was Paris (24/5/66). BUA from Newcastle operated to Amsterdam, Blackpool, Jersey… so it might have been a NCL-AMS flight, or even NCL-JER, changing planes for LBG?

My “money no object” plan would be to build new, proper Halifax wings for the Elvington replica and fit the Hastings wings to the Duxford Hermes.

If it’s true, I’m glad this has been moved on to a warbird-focused collection. It doesn’t really fit with Shuttleworth’s collection of largely pre-war, largely British types. If there’s money to spend on something appropriate, I’d love to see the Percival Q6 that is currently under restoration added to the collection. A beautiful British pre-war civil type, and a large and impressive machine that would fit the bill of being flyable on windy days. Imagine it flying with the Anson and various DH twins!

If you read to the end of the article it identifies the Mecom aircraft as 48-634, which is the one that crashed at Tulsa en route to the USAF museum (cross-ref with the list at the top of the thread – that seems to get the registration switch the wrong way round).

I remember it at Blackpool in Luftwaffe colours when the museum was still going. Remember visiting – must have been 1971 as I was still at primary school!

or even a brouhaha…