Avro Tudors at Stansted

[Victor 102]

I seem to remember Tudors parked up on Stansted Airport in the 1950,s at the same time the Americans were rebuilding the main runway, was this about 1955?.
At that time who owned the Tudors ?
Why were the Americans working on the runway? At the time the was thought perhaps B-52s might drop in, but I have never seen this confirmed.

[diesel addict]

The Tudors !

Yes, I remember them, all lined up with their tails in the hedge bordering the back road from the A120 to the A11 that cut off Bishops Stortford. It would have been the NW corner of the field.

1955-7 was about the time.

There were about eight, all silver and very weathered and dirty.
I have no record of markings as I was then only nine or ten.

[bigal1941]

Freddie Laker before they were converted to Super traders

[norwich]

Hi all, I include below a link to a thread I started on another forum, dealing with the same subject, many many years ago ! unfortunately some of the photos are missing ! but it has some very interesting discussions on the Avro Tudor !!


Hope this works ??


Avro Tudors @ STN 1958 ish (http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?77460-Avro-Tudors-STN-1958-ish&highlight)=


Keith

[southender]

I remember seeing a number of stored Tudors at Stansted in my plane spotting youth.

There were Canadian registered examples of Lome Airways and others of William Dempster that I recall.

I also once spent a whole day waiting for some activity and then an Air Charter Super Trader appeared out of the murk, did a touch and go and landed some 15 minutes or so later.

Those were the days.

Propliner magazine has covered most aspects of the Tudor story in various issues, including Freddie Laker's involvement with this much unloved aircraft.

Cheers

Southender

[chevvron]

As for the runway extension; I'm not sure but 'Stansted Mountfitchet' might have been one of the airfields allocated for SAC use hence the extension to 10,000ft by the USA. Several of these SAC airfields (Bruntingthorpe and Elvington come to mind) were not used by SAC, and Stansted could have been one. Nearby Wethersfield was of course, extended for TAC use.

[Gerry Mobbs]

I have some photo's taken at Stanstead in the mid fifties on a box brownie.The regs I have noted on the back are: G-AMKW(Prince)
G-ANAP(Dove)
G-AKCD(Tudor belonging to William Dempster)
CF-FCY(tudor5)
G-AHZW(AS Consol)

G-AGOE(York)
G-AHLV(York)
G-ANAW(York)
G-ANGL(York)



The highlight of the day I remember is that one of the workers breaking the Yorks up letting us have a look around them.

[chevvron]

Consol was a navigation system, 'HW was a Consul.

[Cornish Jack]

The use of the Tudor/Supertrader during the Suez fiasco was the initiator for the only instance I ever encountered of the charge of "Spreading alarm and despondency" being made!!
One of our 'Siggies' was a keen spotter and was catapulted from his post lunch charpoy session by the unmistakable noise of throttled back Merlins in the Khormaksar circuit. He was still a little 'tired and emotional' from the amount imbibed and stared in amazement as quantities of pongos deplaned from this 'not fit for passenger carrying' machine. He took it upon himself to spread the word about the Tudor's inadequacies to the assembled pax rather too effectively as they then refused to re-embark for their onward flight to Nairobi. The Movement Officer was not best pleased with this situation and the charge was duly made. From memory, the punishment was a great many Orderly Sergeant duties. It was the only time I saw the Tudor operating.
... Is 'spreading alarm and despondency' still a military offence???