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St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:56 pm
by warferry
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:44 pm
by gamecock
Great shots. I never knew there was a museum there. Whereabouts was it?
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:46 pm
by Sparts99
Me neither.
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 5:55 pm
by dollar99
Top one is Hendon, I have some similar angles on slide somewhere
Also have that museum at Rhoose in the big pile still to be scanned
Never got to take the camera round St Athan though, nice to see.
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 5:57 pm
by warferry
St Athans you should know and the Wales was at Rhoose .Thanks for the Hendon correction thought photo was different colour cast.
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 6:42 pm
by NAM Updater
When Rhoose closed many of the airframes were dispersed to other collections around the UK e.g. Newark initially acquired the Sea Venom; and eventually the Ashton fuselage (via Woodford).
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 3:51 pm
by paddyboy
Nice memories, mate
Thanks for posting
Paddyboy
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 4:36 pm
by Nighthawke
Nice reminder of "what used to be and is no more". My first sight of the Wales Air Museum was in the pouring rain in the mid-80s. Managed to visit in decent weather not long before it closed by which time things were running down a bit.
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 7:27 pm
by Blackcat1
Remember the Rhoose museum, there was a Vulcan there, or part of a Vulcan?
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 7:35 pm
by ChrisCwmbran
I can remember seeing in a compound near the British Airways various aircraft including a Vulcan.
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 8:47 pm
by Nighthawke
XM569 was complete when I last went in 1993. Broken up when museum closed around 1995. Nose section mow preserved at Gloucester/Staverton.
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 9:20 pm
by Freeman Lowell
Warferry,
Where the St Athan shots taken on Sunday 21st March 1982 by any chance?
Freeman
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 1:32 pm
by Punkrunner62
Never knew there was a Museum at St.Athan.Is that a LM coded Gannet in the background of the T-33 shot and did the F-100 end up somewhere else,on the Gate someplace or in another Museum?
Cheers.
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 2:45 pm
by warferry
Freeman Lowell ... it was on a Aeroprints trip 6 March 82.
Punkrunner62 .. F100 Croughton and other sites /shows still about I think.
Blackcat 1.. 11 Vulcan's being scrapped have a shot somewhere on the forums of 5 lined up!
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:00 pm
by Freeman Lowell
Thanks Warferry. I knew the characters in the photo were local. I thought they might have been on the LAAS (Southern branch) trip later in that month.
Freeman
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:18 pm
by mustang5861
Punkrunner62 wrote:Never knew there was a Museum at St.Athan.Is that a LM coded Gannet in the background of the T-33 shot and did the F-100 end up somewhere else,on the Gate someplace or in another Museum?
Cheers.
Looks like a Gannet AEW-3's 'square-top' fin, so most likely XL449/LM-762.
Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 8:43 pm
by Nighthawke
F-100, T-33 and Mystere were all scrapped on site in 1998. The one at Croughton (54-2212) was the former RAF Sculthorpe display one and that was scrapped last year along with the F-105.