RAF Scampton Heritage Centre (large post)

[johnwickenden]

Was lucky enough to visit yesterday...so much more than just a collection of airframes (although some of the airframes are rather tasty), it is a full history of Operation Chastise and the v-force, with additions about the raids by Scampton's squadrons prior to 1943 and Guy Gibson's death.

Anyway.. a few photos...not all of airframes, apologies, but I thought they were worthy of inclusion:-

Scampton Heritage - Grave by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - Guy Gibson's office by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - Guy Gibson's office-A Flt Board by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - Guy Gibson's office-B Flt Board by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - 230OCU Insignia panel by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - XR571-Gnat T1 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - XX266-Hawk T1 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - XX349 Hawk T1 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - XZ138 Harrier GR3 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - XN185-Sedburgh TX1 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - Blue Steel and Vulcan CPT by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - Canberra T4 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - XF995-Hunter T8B by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - XL445-Vulcan K2 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage - 37+89-F4F by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Scampton Heritage -98+14-Su22m4k by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

always save the best til' last !!

[iainpeden]

Next to last surely.

[Petepilot]

Next to last surely.

I second that!
Great selection of aircraft, well caught Jon

[paddyboy]

Hi Jon

What an interesting set

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

[Mustang531]

Thanks for sharing these, somewhere on the list of places I'd like to visit. Wonder if I'll get the chance.

[Seahawk 11]

What a fantastic post, good to see all this, must be a great place to visit,
Many thanks for posting these,

Rob

[sschofield]

Nice shots John,

Are the HHA aircraft all lumped together with the heritage collection? When we visited HHA a few years ago they were totally seperate across the airfield, we didn't get access to any of the heritage jets.

[johnwickenden]

Only the Hunter, Pbantom and Sukhoi are in the Historic Collection....the rest of their fleet are, I guess, in their hangar on the North side

[matt e]

Great set

[F3]

Wot - no Brick!!! Interesting set all the same John. The F-4 and Su-22 were the stars of the static display @ the Scampton show 3 yrs ago - along with a Hunter ...and the Buccaneer.

[Ferrari]

I'll have to go again to see the F-4 and Su-22!

Thanks for posting.
Regards,
Ferrari

[Hendon Chipmunk]

It's a fascinating place, thank you for sharing the photos.

I visited in 2018 and noted three WW1 (presumably) replicas - DH2, Rumpler C.VII and Sopwith Camel.

Also, a Chipmunk cockpit section (from WG477).

Can anyone identify that bare metal Canberra cockpit section?