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Le musée de l'Air et de l'Espace Dugny site held their annual open days last weekend, as its part of the European Heritage event, admission was free which helped make up for being ripped off for beers at the Gare du Nord !

141 F-RAFG SE210 Caravelle 3 Armee de l Air
IMG_3972-1 by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

71 C-47A Marine French Navy by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

J-4099 '99' Hunter Swiss AF-2-1 by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

NF11-24 Meteor NF.11 Armee de l Air by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

1 Mystere IVA by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

32515 "04' Saab J32E Lansen F3 SwAF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

162 N.2501F Noratlas by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

BR.21-129 CASA 2111D ex SpAF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

45061 F-ZBCA 'CA' DC-7C Armee de l Air by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

330 '30-ML' Vautour IIN French AF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

3 'V' Bardoudeur SE5003 by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

02 Mirage IVA ex L'armée de l'Air by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

45570 'FE' DC-8-53 ex French AF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

83 MS760 Paris ex L'armée de l'Air by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

148335 '335' SP-2H Neptune Marine French Navy by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

F-ZVMV Lockheed L-749A Constellation ex CEV by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Long term restoration project former Marine Lancaster:
WU21 / 4 Lancaster VII ex Marine French Navy by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

New builds rather than restoration:
MS 1766 / 1769 Morane-Saulnier AI type XXIX & D5787 Albatross D.Va replica by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Lovely pictures!. Doubtless people will not approve of their condition, but it would cost a huge amount of Euros to deal with them. Personally, I quite like seeing them in that situation. In shot two, it would appear that it is the tail of the laminar flow wing Hurel-Dubois thingy?

raptor9 wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:24 am

Lovely pictures!. Doubtless people will not approve of their condition, but it would cost a huge amount of Euros to deal with them. Personally, I quite like seeing them in that situation. In shot two, it would appear that it is the tail of the laminar flow wing Hurel-Dubois thingy?

Well spotted !
F-BICR Hurel Dubois HD-34 IGN-Institut Géographique National:

F-BICR Hurel Dubois HD-34 IGN-Institut Géographique National by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Hi Were you part of an organised tour or did you go as an individual.

time on target wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 24, 2024 10:08 am

Hi Were you part of an organised tour or did you go as an individual.

Individual- details of the open weekend each September are on their website from about June.

What a great "behind the scenes" post. Must do it sometime. Did see a few from a distance at a couple of Salons but would love to get closer with the camera. Thanks for posting.

Some lovely relics there including the lumpy DC-7 and Connie. Connie had 5 engines last time I saw it, quite a while back
Are the new builds for the museum or for a film project?

Interesting to see these, sadly the climate has seriously affected them. Not been to the Dugny open day but seen it from across the other side of Le Bourget. Some of those featured here were on display outside the museum when I visited in 1982 and they were in far better condition at that time. Thanks for sharing these with us.

Sad seeing a rare ELINT DC8 in this condition.

Cheers,
Ranger

xkekeith wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:19 am

Long term restoration project former Marine Lancaster:
WU21 / 4 Lancaster VII ex Marine French Navy by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Isn't this NX664 that is lending its wings to 'Just Jane' so that they will both end up with a fully restored wing?

It is always a bit sad to see airframes in the state some of them are in, but a lot of it washes off fortunately.

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Correct it is the former NX664, the storage shed was full of disassembled Lancaster pieces. Light was very poor so my photos don’t do it justice…

I have only ever managed to see stuff from the other side during the airshow. I can't remember if they lost one of the hangars when they had the fire in 1984 (?)

What a great, interesting, set

Thanks for posting, Keith

Paddyboy

Wonderful stuff!!!!

It's a long time since I was at Le Bourget, never mind Dugny, but a lot of what I saw in the 80's was on the other side then e.g. The Caravelle
F-RAFG Sud Aviation Se210 Caravelle c/n 141 by eLaReF, on Flickr

Sad that much got moved over there and has apparently been left to the elements (although NOT the Caravelle)

Full album https://www.flickr.com/photos/elaref/al ... 274053073/