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St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
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Great shots. I never knew there was a museum there. Whereabouts was it?
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Me neither.
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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.
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.
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St Athans you should know and the Wales was at Rhoose .Thanks for the Hendon correction thought photo was different colour cast.
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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).
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Nice memories, mate
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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.
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Remember the Rhoose museum, there was a Vulcan there, or part of a Vulcan?
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I can remember seeing in a compound near the British Airways various aircraft including a Vulcan.
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XM569 was complete when I last went in 1993. Broken up when museum closed around 1995. Nose section mow preserved at Gloucester/Staverton.
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Warferry,
Where the St Athan shots taken on Sunday 21st March 1982 by any chance?
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Where the St Athan shots taken on Sunday 21st March 1982 by any chance?
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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?
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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!
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!
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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.
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Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
Looks like a Gannet AEW-3's 'square-top' fin, so most likely XL449/LM-762.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?
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Re: St. Athans and Wales Aircraft museum 1982
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.
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