What have you seen in an unusual place??

[treadigraph]

Jensdad, I should think that is indeed the one. Distantly remembered from a Pilot news item quite a few years ago!

[India Four Two]

Originally Posted by SpringHeeledJack

Where are the rotating exhibits kept when not on the roof of Vanguard Self-Storage ??

Talking of rotating exhibits, here's the wind vane at Whitehorse YT:

You Tube

[Ohrly]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Oh yeah, there used to be a graffiti covered Lightning in a scrapyard next to the A1 near Newark.

Someone saved the cockpit section from that one: https://www.thunder-and-lightnings.c...ivor.php?id=65

[SpringHeeledJack]

Like many here, I've seen many 'off-airfield' aircraft here and there over the years, but tbh I can't remember too many of them in detail. Taking a photo, or sharing the experience with regular friends helps bed the memory in somehow! Many of mine were pre-smartphone days and usually in an unexpected/spontaneous way.

I do recall various aircraft, or sections thereof located in AirCadet or Scout properties around the UK, usually spotted from a train window, or top deck of a bus.

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Hartington, that would likely be one of Hank Wharton's Connies, if memory serves they were "Mauritanian registered" and at least one carried a lashed up Nigerian registration I think. He was quite a character and had a colourful career post Biafra.

Originally a TAP aircraft, sold off to Wharton in 1968, it was pursued at various points around Europe when it came, generally due to unpaid bills, but ended up back in Portugal at Faro, where it was finally either seized or had a major breakdown. Converted around 1980 to a bar outside the terminal there, quite nicely restored, many must have seen it there, as I did in 1982, when alas it was not open until later that evening. I did finger the props however !. Returning around 1999 it had gone, but on the road to Albufeira resort there was a scrapyard with what was undoubtedly a Connie tail on top of the piles of scrap.

His other ex-TAP Connie I also saw, that ended up in Malta, where it was restored to a bar as well, off airport (how did it get there ?), ending up scrapped on a similar timescale.

[treadigraph]

Think the Connie at Faro was torched by local youths or something. Sad... Two Canadian Connies used in Biafra still exist at the airport on Sao Tome - if you look carefully at Googlemaps you can just see them!

Earlier on I spotted my copy of "Shadows" lurking on a bookshelf where I keep other topics - it's coming down for a re-read...

[Mogwi]

Many decades ago, I found a large oleo and a piece of aircraft skin in a bog, in the glens of Antrim. Turned out it was from a FW Condor that was shot down by a Sunderland. That must have been one hell of a fight!

Mog

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Think the Connie at Faro was torched by local youths or something. Sad... ..

I think it was the Malta one that was set on fire by imbeciles.

Various of the Connies used in Biafra seem to have transited Faro, closest mainland Europe airport to West Africa. My guess is there were some ex-TAP Connie engineers there, from the Portuguese airline being one of the last to use their fleet in mainstream service. I think they used to come in at night and repaint the reg before dawn.

Another unusual place ? In the Expo 86 showgrounds at Vancouver in 1986, a pioneer Trans-Canada Lockheed 10A Electra from the 1930s. Not only must it have been got there on a barge, it was the centrepiece inside the Air Canada pavilion at the Expo, and in their theatrical show every half hour the props were spun up (be electric motors I think), with P&W radial engine sound effects added.

[chevvron]

Originally Posted by SpringHeeledJack

I do recall various aircraft, or sections thereof located in AirCadet or Scout properties around the UK, usually spotted from a train window, or top deck of a bus.

When the RAF withdrew Slingsby T38 Grasshopper gliders from use in about 1970, my OC at 2204 (Chesham) Sqdn ATC asked for one (they were stored in a hangar at Halton) and we were given one. It was later 'passed on' to another squadron possibly Watford.

[Dr Jekyll]

What looked like a Jet Provost T5 in someone's garden just NW of Thame beside the Bicester road.

[tdracer]

It's long since gone, but there used to be a T6 Trainer on the roof of a rental store about 6 miles south of here on WA Hiway 99. Interestingly it was painted up in a WWII Japanese scheme (which caused many people to think it was a Zero fighter).
Always made me smile when I drove by it

[Kiltrash]

Here's one for the sleuths on PPRuNe...
Today on a back road in the new Forest I came across a Motor Cycle Museum. I quick glance as I passed appeared to be a, not a Chipmunk, in Red and White..
Back home it is the in the car park if the Sammy Miller Motor Cycle Museum ( closed Monday 😔 )

Any suggestions please ??

Thanks K

[treadigraph]

Looks like a Rallye...

Yup, 1966 Rallye Commodore G-EISO. Looks in quite good nick but if I recall they can suffer from corrosion.

Edit: just looked up at the top of the thread - you have a way of seeking out Rallyes in unlikely settings, Kilty!

[ZFT]

A few years ago there was a Harrier in the car park at U Tapoa airport. Since relocated to a roundabout.

[pulse1]

I used to visit a customer in the Coleshill Industrial Estate. Just up the road was a Jet Provost sitting on the roof of a factory. I was told that the owner was intending to fly it one day.

[Kiltrash]

Many thanks Treaders, somehow I know you would know / find out
K

[wub]

There is an ex-Air Atlantique Convair 440 in a garden Centre in Carluke, Scotland. It is used as a beauty salon.

[malcolm380]

I recall seeing a Jet Provost in a garden/yard from the starboard window just prior to landing on runway 27 at Bristol - Lulsgate. Must have been 15 years or so ago.

[Null Orifice]

JP was still there in July 2021 located in a field at Park Farm according to Google Earth.

[reynoldsno1]

Former RNZAF B727 Home Conversion