Boscombe Down Aviation Collection - Old Sarum

[xkekeith]

Visited the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection at Old Sarum for the first time, its great a collection very professionally presented. Volunteers were very helpful in giving access to various areas to get the photos you wanted in quite a tight hangar. These photo's show some of the latest additions and developments:

Very recently arrived Tornado GR.1 from Bicester.
ZA319 Tornado GR.1 RAF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Donated JP after its take off incident:
G-VIVM Jet Provost T.5 ex XS230 by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Swapped Sycamore:
WA577 Sycamore 3 ex RAF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Ex Boscombe Hawk delivered by Chinook:
XX154 Hawk T.1 ETPS by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

For those interested in numbers & serials the non existent 'ZA220' this drone flew for its whole career carrying the unallocated serial 'ZA220' .... a mistake by the manufacturer (allegedly):
'ZA220' Shorts MATS-b Mk.1A target drone by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Work is progressing on the Lancaster cockpit section:
PD130 Lancaster B1 special nose section by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

The slightly out of date Aircraft board:
Boscombe Down Aviation Collection by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Well worth a visit especially on a damp cold winters day.

[paddyboy]

That last list is to die for in a museum, Keith

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

[Mustang531]

Thanks for sharing these, it reminds me that a revisit is overdue. Add to the listing here, there's two more arriving from the now closed Manchester museum in the near future. Well worth a visit.

[Supra]

As noted in Alans' (haveblue) Five-a day Part 6 the RAF Museum's spectacular Avro Shackleton currently still at the Manchester Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) will travel to its 'spiritual home' at the Avro Heritage Museum in nearby Woodford, Stockport, the site of A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd where it was originally made by Manchester born inventor Alliot Verdon Roe, a leader in British Aircraft design. Who could reasonably perhaps expected other AVRO products at MOSI to come their way?
Currently resident at MOSI & heading to BDAC (in a surprise outcome?) they have been allocated both the RAF Museum's red Avro 707A and English Electric P1A & will be re-homed at Boscombe Down Aviation Collection. Major additions to the growing list of 'must-see' items assembled there.The MOSI Avro 504K will find a new home at the Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome in Essex, where members of the public will be able to see it on display in the future. The MOSI Avro 594 Avian Mk IIIA will return from loan to The Aeroplane Collection.

[Seahawk 11]

Good to see these, I have not been now for a few years so its about time for another visit I think,
Many thanks for sharing them,

Rob