Viscount 837, OE-LAK, at Baginton in January 1972. Shackleton Aviation at the airfield had a few Viscounts at the time including the two RAE aircraft – without Darts by the time I photographed them!
I am guessing here but I very much suspect that these four photos were taken when PK683/7150M was moved from the Singapore Air Training Corps’ H.Q. at Kallang Airport to its new location outside the Officers’ Mess at Fairey Point, RAF Changi – after which the codes were changed to “QV-A”. Whilst with the ATC the port side was coded “I-QV” and the starboard as “VQ-I” … as shown in these photos. We have shots before and after the move on page 310 of Volume II. The move took place after August 1960 and it was at Changi by 1961.
Here she is on 1 May 2012 …
I hope when scanned you store the original photos,
Ex RAF collegue was on the Comet for its “arrival” where it took the gear out on one side by hitting the remains / foundations of a buried wall, he told me the Captain turned round to shout abandon aircraft to see the engineers on board, having dumped the overwing exits were already some distance away from the aircraft and still going.. 😀
What about the Strathallan Ansons. One to Sunderland and 2 to East Midlands 1 being scrapped the wings going to the MK1 in Australia and the other G- AGWE rumoured to the USA.
I did manage to salvage something from Proctor NP339/ G-AOBW as shown below. The executioneer was ready with box of matches in hand while I struggeld to remove this.
Thought I might list it on Ebay as a project suitable fora rebuild to fly!
No less creative than some other Ebay sellers descriptions.
Here it is in happier times (27 May 1972 … official opening of the HAM)
Picture of G-ATBF (Sabre) at Duxford
here….
Just came across this old thread, cross-posted these shots on the quoted thread too …
Just come across this thread when I was considering starting up a new one on “The Ones That Got Away”.
Here’s some shots of G-ATBF which date from 1969 (a very cold, misty day I can tell you) and the Duxford auction of 1984 … I’d love to know if there is any DEFINITE proof of what happened to it.
Did’nt Debden also have a Vampire?
VF301 – I helped take it apart and move it to Baginton many years ago. There was a Hunter there too. Interestingly Graham Trant recalls a “light blue” low-back Spitfire there sometime in the 1950’s. Dismantled. Never been able to i/d it.
Here’s a photo of VF301 in the Autumn of 1972 when I went to have a look at it before we (Midland Aircraft Preservation Society) put in a bid for it. We paid £100 and the Tender documents said it was a T.11 …
Air displays at Lydd have not exactly been frequent or regular. The only date that possibly fits is the Easter Air Display on Sunday 6th April 1969.
I was there that day, very hot and sunny, no clouds, John Pothecary was gracious enough to take me for a flight in his Robinson Redwing, G-ABNX.
Here’s some shots of the Active II taken by me a long time ago …
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