I hate to say this, but having a museum within a station you are always going to be at the whim of the landowner, ie the MoD, and its latest ideas and whims.

The “whim of the landowner” phrase can apply to any tenant organisation, not just MoD related sites. 🙁

I hope that the Boscombe Down group is able to resolve its problems!

Some interesting comments coming in! 🙂

It’s worthwhile noting that the ‘Dexion-style’ structural repairs’ in the nose area were in situ before the fuselage came to Newark.

Thanks for posting them Keith – I had to tweak the cockpit shot to try and get some detail visible. I’m glad they’re of interest!! 🙂

Sadly the Ashton fuselage is pretty much a gutted shell and has been talked about on here before http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=94538&highlight=Ashton

I did arrange internal access for a forumite – IIRC last year sometime, but I don’t think that any pictures were posted.

I also took pictures but I have no means of posting them, I can email them through if you want to PM me an email address.

If you look at Keith’s picture you can see the start of the framework that is being fabricated to get the Ashton fuselage ‘mobile!’

IIRC it was partially privatised :confused: – a little bit of background detail is contained in this news item.

Not sure about any Spitfires! 🙂

Scott let me try and clarify the situation for you.

My post was responding to Keith’s post #37.

On Saturday 6th November the Harvard was then the most recent new arrival at Newark, albeit arrived there in August 2010 (before your visit).

On Sunday 7th November the Canberra PR7 cockpit WH779, arrived and therefore became the most recent new arrival at Newark.

Firstly as ever thanks for all the “Instant” Replies- Twin Otter thanks for that offer- was that the Trainer that used to be at Wattisham?

Yes it was – I have some black and white photographs of it being off loaded after it was saved from the scrap man by a quirk of VAT back in the early 1990s!! 😉