What have you seen in an unusual place??

[Kiltrash]

A flying car. No not a breakthrough in aviation but a flying car at the Young V&A museum in London

[N707ZS]

DC-7 In Cordoba Spain, used to live at the airport with another. Now in a city park. There are planes all over in Spain.

[Geezers of Nazareth]

Originally Posted by Dr Jekyll

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

That one is XW432 (in anyone's logbook?) in 1FTS marks, but it also has the code 'MX' on the tail which I think is a Halton code.

[Geezers of Nazareth]

Originally Posted by N707ZS

DC-7 In Cordoba Spain, used to live at the airport with another. Now in a city park. There are planes all over in Spain.

That's so that the rain can fall on them ... as we all know "the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane".

[MAC 40612]

There is the Interflug Il-62 which is preserved in a field on a hill-top next to a glider strip at Stolln-Rhinow which is still there [I saw it there in the 1990s]

https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1015790

You might be thinking that's not very unusual, lots of aircraft get preserved away from airports. What is unusual about this one, is that they landed it on the grass glider strip on top on the hill to get it there back in 1989

Some rather grainy Youtube footage on this page: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...tory-behind-it

[MAC 40612]

Originally Posted by SpringHeeledJack

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

They've got a warehouse locally just off the North Circular road where they keep the exhibits. I think the Hunter is permanently there now, if you put the address in google maps and look at the images, you'll see what I mean.

717 North Circular Road
London
NW2 7AH

[chevvron]

Used to be a Gannet in the back garden of a house in Cirencester; it backed on to the ring road.

[paulc]

There is a Hawker Hunter in an industrial estate in Chinham, Basingstoke

[MAC 40612]

Originally Posted by paulc

There is a Hawker Hunter in an industrial estate in Chineham, Basingstoke

This is quite an interesting Hunter for a number of reasons. It was built as a Hunter Mk.51 for the Royal Danish Air Force where it served between 1956-1974. Bought back by Hawker Siddeley Aviation in 1976 [along with a number of other ex Danish Hunters] they failed to find buyers and were eventually sold off to various places for static display. This particular aircraft being painted in false RAF marks and being displayed at Brawdy as XF979 before being moved to RAF Cranwell for display and then RAF Sealand where it was repainted as WT720. After that base closure it was displayed at North Scarle until being acquired by the present owner and being restored and painted in Royal Iraqi Air Force colours with serial '349' to represent a Hunter FGA.79 and placed outside the Company he owns in Chineham. The aircraft is a memorial to his late father who flew Hunters with 6Sqn RIAF.

Nice image here: https://www.airhistory.net/photo/635404/E-408/349

[SWBKCB]

Originally Posted by jensdad

A school in Nottingham has a Shorts 360 in use as a classroom. Is that the one you're thinking of?

This one?

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[DaveReidUK]

Surely it's a bike Shed ?

[Lomon]

In Bolton there is a burger bar converted from a 737

[treadigraph]

Can you get a Big Max there?

[Vikitor23]

Where are the wings on it?

[DaveReidUK]

That's only a medium rare find.

[Null Orifice]

I just love the propulsion system.

[Sonorguy]

These two are both just south of the old RAF Riccall in East Yorkshire, off the A163. The airframe (no idea what it is) at the top is visible from the road, the fuselage at the bottom isn't.

[treadigraph]

One at the top of the pic looks like a Prescott Pusher, fuselage is perhaps a 125?

Edit: The Pusher is OE-KDW and the 125 is a 700, VP-CFI - 257054....

[TimL]

There's a Vampire next to a polo field between Henley-on-Thames and Lower Shiplake. I spotted it first when going past in a boat on the River Thames, but the vegetation has grown and now hides it. It appears to have Swiss markings - I believe a Swiss billionaire is a local landowner.

[Geezers of Nazareth]

Originally Posted by TimL

There's a Vampire next to a polo field between Henley-on-Thames and Lower Shiplake. I spotted it first when going past in a boat on the River Thames, but the vegetation has grown and now hides it. It appears to have Swiss markings - I believe a Swiss billionaire is a local landowner.

It has been there since about 2009/2010. It was mentioned here on PPRUNE and I went and took some pictures ... my pics are dated June 2010.