Nimrod over Hawarden, North Wales

[andybsei]

Hi All,

About 6.30pm tonight i was out feeding the birds and heard an odd roar...didnt sound like the normal Beluga into Hawarden or the local Easybuses into LPL....looked up and there was a Nimrod, few thousand feet up heading roughly N/NNW towards (i guess) Liverpool way..

Seemed to be much lower than LPL arrivals and judging by the wind would have been on the wrong runway anyway.

Anyone have any idea's where it had come from / was going to?

Very unusual sighting around these parts...normally have to settle for the Beluga and the odd Hawk or 2

Ta!

[howard2107]

From my RAF days many moons ago i remember Nimrods being based at St Mawgan in Cornwall and i think Lossiemouth or Leuchars in Scotland, so if nothing has changed i guess that it will be from one of those places, wher it was going i have no idea, i know that there are one or two BAe places in your part of the world, maybe its been into one of those for some kind of work doing to it.

Sorry i cant be more specific but there will probably be a more knowledgable reply than mine.

regards..Howard

[moleytt]

Unfortunately the Nimrods have long departed from St. Mawgan - it's now a civil airfield. Used to love watching them from a nearby beach while on hols.

Howard, the Nimrod you spotted could be one of the new MRA4's being built by BAE Systems at Woodford near Manchester.

Moley

[andybsei]

Cheers Moley & Howard for your replies.
I have since managed to find out that it was returning back home from doing a circuit at the National Memorial Arboretum in memory of the crew of XV230 who were sadly lost 2 years ago.

[LN-KGL]

howard2107, you forgot to mention the Nimrods at RAF Waddington and the No. 34 Expeditionary Air Wing.

[sidtheesexist]

The scottish base is Kinloss and years back the special surveillance jobs (50 Sqdn?) were at Wyton I believe..........