Originally Posted by
boeing_eng
Ah...didn't count that one as it hasn't been a proper aircraft hangar for years!
I remember Hangar 9 was home to PA-22 G-APUT around 1968. I also remember it was full of new Cessnas one day (27/11/68) when the government slapped on a big increase in import duty, so Rogers at Cranfield rushed to get around 27 new aircraft delivered from Reims to beat the increase (mostly the G-AWU_ batch). Roughly half went into hangar 9 with the rest in the old light aircraft park, now the location of hangar 127. By 1977 it was in use as a cargo shed and remained so until the cargo centre opened around 1992.