WB758 Chipmunk T10 Torbay Aircraft Museum July 1982

VP441 Squires Gate Early 1970s

XX897 in her airworthy days .RAE Bedford August 1992

XL500 Gannet AEW3 at HMS Gannet Navy day,Prestwick 1978

XN650 Sea Vixen Rhoose August1983

WH588 Flying Legends July 1999

WH588 Elvington August 1999

Hi MkV,
The answer to your question about how I gained access is very surreptitiously!The woman who looked after the yard had a couple of huge dogs,but towards the end of the yard’s life access was much easier.The yard was cleared completely in March 1981 to make the area tidier for a parkland scheme.A few of the airframes were saved,Swift WK198,Brigand RH746 ,2 Balliol cockpit sections and 1 or 2 Firely front fuselages,but the rest were broken up and carted away to be molten down.Several Firefly fuselages were moved to the company’s other yard in Salford but I don’t know their fate.
Dave