I remember seeing invesija il76 at manston many times this was also on a omega air charter one day they where changing a wheel they did this buy placing a new tyre over the hub then releasing the back cargo door on to this so it would fit over the rim last time I saw them was at Alicante doing a tuna run to Japan .

The 125 could be the CAA 125-700 G-OCAA that used to fly out of Luton (I went to Lisbon on it once)

I think you're correct. I thought it looked like G-BHLF which McAlpine/Magec operated on behalf of Marconi for several years. G-BHLF was re-registered G-OCAA in 1992 and seems to have retained the same scheme.
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1345327

5 April 2018 sees the 80th anniversary of Luton Airport being granted a Public Use Aerodrome Licence.

https://i.imgur.com/nnoIhUV.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eOZmBLl.jpg

Vintage ATCO when did you dig that out from?

In the mean time what is lurking in this Luton hangar?

https://i.imgur.com/XPUi6wD.jpg

Hawker Tempest V and a sectioned Lincoln I'd suggest?

Napier hanger with Tempest NX-238 and their Avro Lincoln

I am actually struggling to place the hangar. It doesn't seem to have the Luton shape and the doors don't look right either for the hangars then.

Did they have a hangar at another airfield as this is Luton unless the first photo was around Percivals.

https://i.imgur.com/RMejJLV.jpg

That first photo is not Luton.



I dug the Aerodrome Licence out of a skip!!

Is that really true? Amazing and bloody well done!

Leavesden?

Where did Napier have an aircraft hangar apart from Luton?

Interesting piece about Napier and its altitude record that was set with a flight from Luton in a modified Canberra.

Vulcan To The Sky - Canberra WK163 - 60th Anniversary

Thats interesting article. Behind the canberra on obe photo is the Napier Eland Convair
The Canberra initially only had the drawing of the Scorpion ( No writing) and when they went to Tripoli for hot trials and the crew brought back a scorpion in a Jam Jar !!

I watched the press flying demo of the record Canberra from our garden in Stopsley.

I remember watching the Canberra flights from my front garden in Crawley Green Road.

As regards the Napier Convair, it you mean the tail in the first photo then that is not a Convair. A Convair tail tapers towards the top which is more rounded. It looks like the tail of a Bristol 170 to me but unless it is on jacks that is also unlikely!

That tail looks to me like a DC-6 or DC-7

Laurence

Hi, I was refering to the last photo outside the hangar.

Am I looking at the right photo. I don't see a Convair? :confused:

I am referring to the first photo, with a DC-6/7 on the left.

Laurence