What basically happens at DM is that the newer arrivals are stored for possable reuse or sale abroad. For example the B-1’s are in store and can be reactivated in 60 days, they have done this recently as attrition replacements. As newer F-15/F-16/F-18 arrive the older ones are parted out. DM actually saves US tax payers billions in replacement parts as they are taken off aircraft as and when needed. The C-5’s for example are time expired but parts like the elevators, and flaps were in demand for the upgrade program. Once the aircraft are no longer needed for spares, or are completely stripped then they are either scraped on site or sold off to local yards. I think they now restrict this to non operational types after somebody tried to sell F-14 spares to Iran a couple of years ago.
The scrap yards are almost like museums themselves but are not acessable. Amoungst the more vintage items are KC-97, C-117 ,F-86, B-57, F-106, P-2, S-2, F-8, T-33, HH-34, HU-16, C-118 and one yard with 100+ H-34 (Wessex to you and me!).

The fly past would have 5 formations, im greedy:D
Formation one: HP V/1500, Vickers Viginia,
Formation two: Hawker hart, BP Sidestrand, HP Heyford, HP hampden
Formation three: lancaster,halifax, Stirling ,Mosquito, B-17, B-24
Formation four:B29, Vickers Windsor, Lincoln, plus a B-36 coz it’s my airshow
Formation 5: Valiant, Vulcan, NA B-45, canberra

Where do I buy tickets for this one!

My god that takes me back to my misspent yoof. First visit aged 6 in 1976 had pestered my parents(dad was a spotter anyway) to go an see Concorde. As with so many other visits we got the rail-air coach from Reading and I slept through Concorde’s departure!
We visited a few times each summer until I was 14 and started visiting in school holidays regularly from 1984. I remember the QB well, I just remember the commentators but they were gone by the 80’s.
The QB didn’t open until 10am so if it was nice until then I used T2 carpark if it was cold/raining used to stand in T1 where there was a good view of the north runway.
The QB cost 20p if you were under 16 and 50p for adults I was under 16 for a long time as 30p went a long way then! First target on entry would be the Aeroflot Il-62 parked between T1 and T2. You could mostly ignore T1 as it was rull of rubbish like BA Tridents Aer Lingus 737-200’s and BMA Viscounts! If arrivals were on 10L/28R we normally viewed from the area above the tail of the Alitalia DC-8. There was a shop here(models, books atc) and a small indoor viewing room known as ‘the fishtank’.
If you continue to walk towards T2 you came to the bridge between the two. Downstairs was the restaurant and bar. Until about 1982 it had a great view until they built the Eurolounge in front of it. Here you could get the culinary delights of the period, everything with chips!
Once over the bridge there was a further raised viewing area on the extreme left of the photo that eventually had a indoor bit added.
I visited on the last day the whole lot was open, summer of 86 IIRC. After that they built a new entrance by the bridge and the QB side was no longer acessable. IIRC they closed the lot during the 1st Gulf War and there was then limited opening until 9/11 after which is closed permanently. I used the carparks for spotting until 91 when I got my first car and have been using the permiter at least once a week since.

Because I was at Yeovilton:D seeing the Vulcan and Sea Vixen in formation was enough for me:D.
BTW nice display from the An-2, first time I have seen the display despite seeing it at Popham every flyin. Which is where I will be tomorrow as I need a rest!

Not the best weather but it’s there.

I saw ‘IWA at LFA around a year after its accident and then it didn’t look in too bad condition, certianlly rebuildable. A following visit around 5 years later found it overgrown and stripped out, two years later nothing was found. At that time the rear of LFA was full of various wrecks completeley over grown, many T-6’s , Nord 1101’s and some Yaks. I guess that there was little apertitie at the time for a rebuild so the owner took the insurance money and left it there?

As somebody who has written a short book on Blackbushe’s history I can expand a little.
Blackbushe was a govenment operated commercial airport until closed in may 1960. In the following year the part that was privately owned was sold to Don Bennett and reopened in its current form in October 1961. Blackbushe Aeroclub was formed at the same time. There were other clubs formed in the 60’s including Three Counties, ICL and Aeromart. Three Counties became the dominant club after Doug Arnold brought the airfield in 1972 and got the other clubs to move on. Three Counties became European Fliers around 1990and went bankrupt in 2001. Its interests were taken over by Redair in 2002.

Want to listen in on the action in Libya? Currently have Snake 11 (Spangdahlem F-16’s) and a RAF E-3 inbound Akritori. In the last hour we have had Ascot 9641 two Tornado’s GR4’s outbound Libya. Earlier had Viper 11 followed by weasel 07 inbound Aviano. All this is in the public domain by listening to the Malta ATC feed http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=MLA .
Something like ‘Porter 11’ USAF has asked for a cruising level of 50,000-60,000 feet! Forte 10 has gone to Sigonoella. Fascinating stuff.

I too have that Aeroplane spotter mag, from December 1947 it mentioned an unknown Avro 504N and a DH60 G-EBMF.The 504 was a ex Air Publicity machine but the c/n plate had been removed and the wings burnt. EBMF was not impressed so I guess it was allready WFU in 1939. Not mentioned in the report but others may be G-ABTR Spartan 3 seater burnt Gatwick 1947, G-AEOK Portfield 35 burnt 1947, G-AFWX DH60 scraped Gatwick 1946
I believe Southern Aircraft brought a number of impressed aircraft post ww2 so I guess those that had been wfu and not impressed were used for spares?