Avro Shackleton

It's great to see that Avro Shackleton WR963 completed a successful taxy last Saturday at Coventry. Their still on track to get her airborne eventually -

Video clip of the taxy last Sat here -



Here's a shot of her that I took in 2011 during an engine run -


More info here on the ongoing restoration to flight here on their faceache page -

www.facebook.com/ShackletonReturnToFlight

Some other Shackleton news is that the Gatwick Aviation Museum's Shack is currently being dismantled & is to move to Bruntingthorpe to join the Cold War Collection there. It's planned to be a gate guard.

Steve

it leave's a bad taste in the mouth to think we were burning them at catterick in the 80s

They burnt a lot of different types at Catterick, after all havent the firemen got to practice?

Will the RAF museum ever get a Shackleton????

The RAF Museum has a Shackleton, it's the AEW.2 WR960 at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.

What is the status of the AEW2 (now a MR2) at RAF St Mawgan? RAF owned?

My point about the RAF Museum having a Shackleton is to do with why the one they have is on loan and not at either Cosford or Hendon?

canberra;151709 wrote:

My point about the RAF Museum having a Shackleton is to do with why the one they have is on loan and not at either Cosford or Hendon?

Agree-there seems to be several Shackleton's to choose from and after all it was a very significant aircraft postwar/Cold war, so why don't they have one at Cosford or Hendon? I visited Hendon earlier this year (for the first time in 20 years) and noted some exhibits which appeared to have a tenuous connection to the RAF?

In Shackleton news, the former Gatwick Aviation Museum, Shackleton WR974 moved to Bruntingthorpe this week, it is going to be staticly restored and probably put on the gate.

netcompsys;151758 wrote:

Richard

There used to be 2 Shackletons at Paphos Airport,

www.flashearth.com/?lat=34.725834&lon=32...&z=19.6&r=0&src="msa"

and the remains of another at the former Nicosia Airport

www.flashearth.com/?lat=35.153869&lon=33...&z=18.4&r=0&src="msa"

Are they still there?

kevin

There is actually three at Paphos and as far as I know they are all still there, as is the one at Nicosia. Not seen them yet but they are all present this year according to demobbed.
www.demobbed.org.uk/locations.php?country=30