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St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:56 pm
by warferry
As promised started on my old print films, must be mad .
Long ago visited these two sites, only few faded prints found and scanned .
Might be of interest to some.Wales museum long closed also many of St Athans items moved to other museums.

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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). :thumb:

Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 3:51 pm
by paddyboy
Nice memories, mate :thumb:

Thanks for posting ;)

Paddyboy :clap:

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.