Breaking and entering. The storage site of the Brussels museum, in process of being moved.

Cessna 310s, Argus, Auster, Stampes. And sad to see no pics of the gliders visible in one photo. A Bocian, a Baby (I think). And lots of wings, plus some on trailers. Condition appalling…

£5-7s6d

Including or excluding VAT?

Just too easy to blame spotters……

Never blamed the spotters. But I caught somebody out claiming to be a spotter recently who was trying to force his way into a trailer on the airfield. Having a look around an airfield to spot planes or to see if there’s something of value are two different things, but one can be a good cover for the other unfortunately.

Dover Harbour board have applied to dredge on the Goodwin Sands. A petition against it sights ( among its reasons) the disturbance of wrecks including war graves.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/save-our-sands-petition-delivered-115081/
mmitch.

There’s still a KLM Fokker F.III down there that was landed there in Octobet 1923 after an engine failure. All occupants picked up by boat before high tide…

hi,
I did read a comment from a airfield manager after a recent theft “I hope he gets a good long sentence, and when he gets out I will offer him a job cause he removed the engine etc very professionally”. There was also a case recently on the continent where 2 or 3 east Europeans were stopped and they had 6 engines all from Italy, do “spotters” in these other countries get blamed, or is it a English thingy?

Not the same thief as a case I saw recently then, where the aircraft suffered 8K euros worth of collatoral damage from a hacksaw being used to cut the motor mounts…

Yeah, two weeks ago they hit an airfield nearby (the Netherlands). Two Rotax 912s, both relatively lowtime. Engine mounts, turbo, accessoiries, engine instruments and all. Lots of collatoral damage to the airframe in the process, very crude removal. They’re not the first on the continental side of the Channel. Suspected to go to Eastern Europe into the MLA market over there. There’s more and more airfields banning non-pilot visitors, to help prevent this kind of brazen theft.

Does anybody know if the Klemm 35 that went down near Elstree this afternoon was on its way to Duxford? It would seem odd for a Swiss classic aircraft to be pottering around in the UK and not be on its way to Duxford… Two crew OK, aircraft not so but will probably be rebuilt.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=188541