Some memories of Strathallen’s final days.
Tigermoth G-ALWS and the Provost WW453 were purchased by Dave Davidson and Jim McTaggart from Scone airfield. The airfield had changed hands and a big clearout was underway which included the scrapping of all the old spare parts in the stores. We traced the scrap merchant but all had been processed. Included in the deal for the Tigermoth and the Provost were parts housed in an old barn on the outskirts of Scone which included two Tigermoth fuselages, wings, new mainsparts, fuel tanks and several engines, enough to build two more Tigers. We were allowed to remove any parts from the barn with the exception of two Cheetah engines which had already been earmarked for Anson WD413. Also recovered from the barn were Chipmunk tooling, parts, one wing, a Swordfish rudder and some Wasp cylinders. All parts went to the shed at Strathallen until sold. Also living in the barn were the last mortal remains of Cessna 310 G-BCKL which crashed on Black hill in 1976 complete with AAIB labels, it may still be there.
I have a few photos of us dismantling the Provost at Scone, it’s move to Strathallen and the recovery of parts from the barn.
If you look at the photo’s of Anson WD413, the port side has been recovered from the cockpit back to the door. The story i remember was that during an airtest the skinning pealed back and fell off landing in a field in Perthshire narrowly missing a farmer.
Prior to the Shackelton being scrapped we spent a day removing a lot of the fittings, they may still be in the workshop store.
Spent a day dismantling the Vampire for it’s move to Errol airfield, sadly it is still there in a sorry state and hopefully someone reading this will save it. Also dismantled Safir G-ANOK for it’s owner, think it still lives in a barn in the Borders.
The Vampire cockpit section belonging to the defunct SWIAG went to Dumfries Aviation Museum.
When time allows I post some photos.
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