Next door but one to me at one time was the pilot who took the Beverley to the RAF Museum at Hendon. The airfield had already been dug up and he was effectively landing in the middle of a building site.
The aircraft, so I was told, was never struck off charge so the RAF still owned it as it sat there outside the museum. I am led to believe that the museum authorities were thereby powerless to do anything to preserve it so it just corroded away so badly that it had to be scrapped.