Originally Posted by
Mooncrest
What becomes of the obsolete radar heads and towers ? NATS had plenty of Watchmans (if that's the right plural) which have all but completely disappeared. Sold on or end up in a scrap yard ?
The Farnborough Watchman was owned by MOD so they took that back and installed it elsewhere (mid 2003), but they didn't want the consoles as these were being replaced by raster scan displays so they were left in situ when the old tower was demolished in 2003. We did have a 6th console in the final few months of the old tower and this was a raster scan one so we all assumed this is what we would get in the new tower but we got TFT displays instead although the CAA were reluctant to approve them until very close to 'O' date (22 Nov 2002); can't remember what happened to that console or whether it was owned by NATS or MOD.