In the latest MAM2005 update (March06) on Howard Curtis’s site it listed as at Dumfries and Galloway Air Museum, so I would guess (Hope) its off there in the near future.

Pete, if you have more up to date pictures af any of the Gatwick aircraft please PM me and I’ll happily sort out replacing them.
This also applies to anyone else who has Harrier – or any others for that matter.
As with any project, its work in progress and I scour the web for contacts to update the info/pics contained on the site. Some have already come to light through this thread and been added, with the image owners consent, as a result.

Regards
Mark Ray

Harriers at predannack

The Predannack examples consist of GR3’s XV786, XZ969 and SHAR.2 ZH807

Dave, the Harriers at Predannack are actually GR3 XZ969 and SHAR 2 ZD581. The rear fuse and wing of XV786 was scrapped in September 04, the cockpit is now with the fire station at RNAS Culdrose.
there is no evidence ZH807 ever went to Predannack, other than one report on MSF, whilst there were lots of reports of it being in St Athan at the same time!

Regards

MrB, both the andover and Argosy are still on the airfield. You can find recent pictures of both on the website :http://WWW.demobbed.org.uk

Regards

From a personal point of view, I believe we collectively ‘dropped the ball’ on the BP111a during the development of the museum. We missed the opportunity when we opened the Main hangar – although at the time the logic for the choice of what went inside seemed sensible with what we were trying to achieve (the story of the Jet Engine, the T-33 representing the P-80, the USA’s first true jet aircraft).
Then again when we constructed the Robin hangar – indeed we should have included it as part of the rationale for putting that building up, we may have got some funding for it then, rather than funding the building from Museum Funds.
I’ve discussed the airframe since then many times with the current Chairman and believe the Museum is fully aware of the current situation and concerns, indeed I believe if it had not been for the ‘Undercarriage incident’ it would have been undercover by now.

Mark Ray

The photo dates from late 80’s when the two largest ‘lumps’ of fuselage were put on temporary display when the museum was taking part in a BBC TV ‘Blue Peter’ treasure hunt competition that was running nationwide I believe. The other parts are Whitley remains as previously stated, some of which are now better displayed upstairs at the museum.
It quickly dissappeared back into storage with its then owner, although the very nicely restored seat and some propellor blades stayed at the museum in store for some years afterwards.
Sadly almost all the remains were destroyed whilst at a location which was subjected to an arson attack, the description I heard was it was burned out down to the cockpit floor, a very sad end. What became of what was left after that i’m not sure, but if the dataplate remains I’m sure well see it fly again one day !
The seat happily was not lost and I believe is now in the hands of a spitfire restorer for inclusion in another project.

Update to Histories:
PR9 XH174 – this was in long term store at Shawbury until last week when it was disposed of, after tender through the DSA. I thought it had gone to Cronifer metals, obviously not.
T4 WH849 – same as above.
The Canberra mkd ‘AT’ was T4 WT480 and the last few years were the same as above.
Interestingly the AV8B also on GJD services website was at Cronifer Metals (I saw it there a couple of weeks ago). Maybe they have collaborated on the scrapping of the shawbury airframes?