With all the lamentations about the loss of the Ju-52 I believe the departure the Sea Vemon to be far worst. OK there are other Sea Vemons in UK Museums but IWM is the premier collection but the Sea Vemon can tell a story about British aviation, naval developement, and service history, besides what has been gained by selling the Sea Vemon ? Bet it never reached a high price, it required little if any maintance and certainly did not take up at lot of space. I could never understand why ‘for sale’ and not ‘for exchange’ unless I am missing something has IWM recieved anything in exchange for these airframes ? How about a Mig-15 or Su-22 ?

Couple of questions for you. PM me if you prefer not to make answers public.
You are restoring the Sea Harrier airside at Bournmouth airport, do you have hangar space for the complete restoration or just container storage and out door working ? I assume access is restricted being airside.
If this a solo endevor or are you heading up a small group. What is the long term goal, once restoration complete, retain the SHAR, or loan to a museum ?

Wishing you the best of luck with a great project
Paul

quote “If you have issues, please tell the Webmaster what they are.”

Tried that and still waiting reply. Think some of the issues could have been resolved by giving the Forum users a warning that things were going to look different and a sticky ‘New Forum FAQ’ so the less computor literate amoung use can understand the meaning of the different colour envelopes. Personally I find the pastel colours very hard to read on my PC and the text is not ‘black’ enough.

Also I keep getting a pop up box asking if I want to go this trusted site and accept ‘ieframe.dll’ dispite saying yes I get asked the question again and again.

What stance do insurance companies take on such events ? Most likely would be happy to fork out a grand for a carpet or furniture, might event replace the damaged tank. Should be able to get some payment for the clean up.

Gerry. Try contacting your insurance company and see what they say, if you have a list get it priced, either via the Forum or searching Ebay or Amazon.

Good luck
Paul

Interesting to read how the Lightning got to Singapore using tankers. Were the Gloster Javelin’s tankered out as well ? What about other non AAR types ? Also how were aircraft returned to the UK.

“The Fibreglass one in the Brussels Museum looks fabulous, and nobody bats an eyelid.”

Totally agree, once an aircraft is hung up its original or otherwise condition is irrelevant, its internal condition or completeness can not be judged. It might as well be a plastic model. String up both a Hurricane and Spitfire, even a Me109, the general public will go “oooh ‘n aaah” and walk on by. Display the real thing, in its original finish but also tell the general public why its so important.

It still is the main gate, RAF St Mawgan is still going strong! & 795 is very well cared for by the Cornish Aviation Society

Not suggesting that the St Mawgan gate guard was in anyway uncared for, glad to hear a local group has been allowed to look after her whilst on MOD property. This thread started about moving a Shackleton to Airbase at St Mawgan, just think it a waste of time and money with a suitable airframe already on site, better to spend on saving and relocating other airframes.

Can anybody answer two question
1) what if any RAF present is there at St Mawgan today ?
2) where will Airbase be located on the base and what access does the collection have ?