I think that the drift the captain landed an 80 tonne aircraft in 900 metres of runway (grass?) making him the aviation version of Micheal Schumaker.
The Germans are quite good at giving large airframes a second life as I used to visit a DC 6 that is now an ice cream cafe at Preußisch-Oldendorf which is not far from Hannover. A few miles down the road, a Nord Noratlas was present in a theme park.
The Valetta now at Brooklands was a cafe for a while in Dortmund if my memory serves me well.
I am surprised that Cosford have not employed the innards of their Belfast, especially as with its new coat of paint it looks superb.
Of course in the USA it is voque nowadays to live in a Boeing 727.
A lot of thread, but does anyone know of any airframes used in any of these ways in the UK?
DC6 in Germany below:
