So glad this is finally being sold, would love to see it back in the air in the UK. Although there seems to be very few events to view such aircraft, please bring back the great vintage flying weekend.

I think it is all relative to where you live. I don’t do public transport into London because it is way cheaper to drive to Hendon than get the train from Farnborough, am actually going there on saturday. Have been to Cosford twice this year because I was in the area but it is the ‘wrong’ side of Birmingham for those of us from the south, had not previously been there for 10+years. Although Hendon is not in a ideal airfield location it is is a good location for about 1/3 the English population and the many tourists who come to London.

I visited too a month or so ago, unfortunately there was a flight sim show on so hangar 1 was ticket only. One question that baffled me is the York has black painted ‘windows’, any idea why? All I can think is that is was a civil freighter before being retired and it has never been properly restored by the RAFM?

IMHO the worse thing that happened at Hendon was making it free, a mere £10 entrance fee would improve the clientele greatly. I actually like the ‘carrier ‘exhibit at FAAM. Took my father in law there last week, he was ex RN carrier stoker and said how good the recreation was. Lets face it pretty much none of us ever got to see the inside of a carrier. As for Hendon I would like to see the galleries restored with the uniforms and dioramas, and a new building linking the BoB hall and Milestones would be good, and can we have at least one Transport Command aircraft on display. Going to Hendon in a couple of weeks so will comment more after that.

Thanks for that one Matheson that is indeed looking towards the Eagle hangar in the background with a further nissen hut by the A30. to complete the picture on the right hand side beyond the building is the bus stop and shelter where the airline buses would pick up arriving passengers to transport then to the Victoria Air Terminal in London.
It is really not an airport as we know it now, not a single shop, my wife would have hated it!!!

This was based on XB-RIY although how much of that machines remains. Must be taken by somebody with contacts as I thought Rencombe was very much out of bounds to mere mortals.

first time I have seen from home a Gloster Gladiator heading northbound over farnborough, not something you see every day!