Great photos, thanks for sharing them.

That person I understand is out on a good boy license and is down south somewhere as he is not permitted to return
currently to his mothers old house and the place where the incidents he was locked up for took place.

A good bit of his stuff was seized and locked up by the crash and smash team from the MOD as he apparently
did not have much in the way of permits or licenses to recover and some of the stuff he had that had deactivation
certificates for had in fact been re activated. Some of his stuff did not get seized and apparently
disapeared to places elsewhere I know some of his cockpits got re allocated or sold and we where offered two of
them including a Vampire but believe this ended up being scrapped because he wanted silly money.
It would be nice to know what happened to the rest of the Wellington stuff he had to go with the stuff
at East Kirkby as it would go a long way to 60-70% of a whole aircraft being available for a rebuild project.

Besides the other allegations against him some of it was very scary apparently live explosives etc.

I dont know the full details so dont think I will comment further but sadly there are some rather less
than honest individuals still lurking aorund the artifacts world as thefts from museums and collections
in the uk during the last twelve months proves.

Mike E

I knew this chap and saw his vast extensive aviation collection, although I accept that he has done wrong with his other misdemeanours I hope that his aviation collection didn’t get smelted down as there were plenty of rare WWII aviation items
In the collection, I hope to meet him at Newark aerojumble soon and will find out more on what aviation stuff has been destroyed by the authorities if anything at all.

Thanks for the info everyone, I wonder if car boot space is allowed as I fancy selling some stuff but font have enough to justify a table? I may give the organisers a call.

For the benefit of others here is a re cap of TwinOtter23 post.

TwinOtter23

According to the MOD / de&s document:

“McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG1 (Tail Number XV582) is not airworthy and is without engines
–Airframe Serial Number: 3253/9336
–Operating weight (empty) lbs 22,142 (without engines)

The aircraft, has been defueled, engines removed and had all explosives removed. However, it is likely to have the following hazards evident, although most likely only in trace quantities:
–Fuel (AVTUR), Oil 0X-38 (NATO 0-149), Hydraulic Oil OM-15 (NATO H-515), Liquid Oxygen, Beryllium, Mercury Thallium, Coolanol25, Chaff, Lithium Sulphur Dioxide, Asbestos, PTFE, Fluoroelastomers, Electrolyte Acid, Cadmium, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, High Pressure Nitrogen, Magnesium Alloy, Radiation hazard from Radium in dials and instruments
–Furthermore, the airframe is old and shows some signs of corrosion. Although the structure of the aircraft doesn’t present an immediate health and safety hazard, the full structural integrity of the airframe is not known.”
Find out what’s happening at …. newarkairmuseum.org
“The Friendly Accredited Aviation Museum!”

They are a friendly bunch
ASI having dealt with them a few times. Why not drop them a line and find out?

Apart from special arrangements to open the aircraft up are any routinely opened as a matter of course similar to other museums?

Let us all know the code once you find out please.