Originally Posted by
highwideandugly
Credit to Air North....Aircraft overran the runway on departure.Stopped with wing over road and became a bit of a tourist attraction as was there for some days until removed.
Air North : The North-East Branch of Air Britain (Historians) , from their April 2002 magazine ;
G-AHYH/PP261 infamous Handley Page Halifax arrived Newcastle 28/10/1949 and was noted parked outside the Aero Club the following day as the C of A had just expired. All parts were 'over time’ and the wing spar was cracked.
By 05/11/1949 it was parked by Ponteland Road (the eastern boundary of the airfield/airport, roughly at a point where the new (2002) cargo road now joins Ponteland Road.
Eventually the aircraft was scrapped at Newcastle and left by road.