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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 !!

Next to last surely.

iainpeden wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 07, 2021 9:19 pm

Next to last surely.

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

Hi Jon

What an interesting set

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

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

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

Rob

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.

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

Great set

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.

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

Thanks for posting.
Regards,
Ferrari

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?