Civilian Aviation

I haven't been back to the old airport for years but managed a half hour there the other day. It's still a scrapyard of hopeful old planes that are going to be sold on or leased but end up getting torched, sad old place really.


HS 748, VH-AMQ ex A10-605 by Stefan the Cameraman, on Flickr


HS 748, VH-AMQ ex A10-605 by Stefan the Cameraman, on Flickr


HS 748, VH-AHL ex A10-606 by Stefan the Cameraman, on Flickr


HS 748, VH-AHL ex A10-606 by Stefan the Cameraman, on Flickr

Superb. More please. You may be in teested in this thread; http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/v ... 7&p=128006" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The 748's are owned by a hotel I believe.

I saw that thread on fighter control and popped over to Southend to go see them, sad sight really. I love the first photo..

Thanks for the replies, glad you liked the picture. The owner of the two 748's, the Beech Baron wreck and the Skylark Hotel is Andreas Stavrinides and he says he intends to put one of the Avro's on display out the front this year (2012). He told me it will need a 100 ton crane to lift it so should any of this actually happen, I want to see it! I rather suspect the fuselage will just snap off like the old Delta DC6 that used to be there.

Speaking of the DC6, here's a photo of the poor old thing, taken about 1978.