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Old 25th Nov 2015, 18:00
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by SpringHeeledJack
Would anyone know if they were scrapped on site or 'Drawn and Quartered' as it were and taken off to a museum/attraction etc ? Memory seems to say there were a couple of DC-8's, a DC-10, 747 when i was last there 4 years or so ago.
Most, if not all, of the stored airliners that were to be seen there 4-5 years ago were scrapped in situ:

9G-MKA (DC-8-55F)
N309TD (747-269B)
5X-JOE (DC-10-30F)
TF-AMC (747-2B3F)
A20-261/N707QJ (707-368C)

The nose of the DC-10 survives in Belgium:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ga-bob/12644024143
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