Preserved in Cheshire

[johnwickenden]

I spent a few days working in Cheshire this week and managed to pick up a few photos of some ex-military hardware along the way.

First up the privately owned collection at Oliver's Valves in Knutsford. Here they have a Tornado (which is unfortunately partially obscured my a Ugandan Police Westland Scout - itself to clutter to get a shot of) and, in a Seperate Compound over the road, a Harrier T8 and a Jet Provost T5

ZA399-Tornado - Knutsford-120721 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

ZD992-Harrier-Knutsford-120721 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

XW330-JPT5-Knutsford-120721 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

Next a couple of shots of the Tornado GR4 Gate Guard at MoD Sealand

ZA607-TornadoGR4-MoD Sealand-140721-1 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

ZA607-TornadoGR4-MoD Sealand-140721-2 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

and finally a few from Hawarden Airport

ZE966-TornadoF3-Hawarden-140721 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

23 White outline - Mig 27D-Hawarden-140721 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

35red-SU17M-Hawarden-140721 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

54 red-Su17M-Hawarden-140721 by Jon Wickenden, on Flickr

[F3]

Some nice airframes there John but the Flogger gets my vote for its picturesque dereliction.

[Mustang531]

Thanks for sharing these, seeing these reminds me that once normality returns I should actually start to get out and about again. There's loads of places I've not visited for many years.