Scrapped Planes in Bournemouth

[breamster]

Hi All,

Driving near Bournemouth airport I noticed a handfull of scrapped planes, most large jets*.

Is this a repost or is anyone interested in seeing a few pictures?

If so let me know and I post them up as soon as I work out how(!).

Cheers.

• - I know very little about planes but one looked to me like a 747.

[sneijder]

Is that Lasham ? They have/had XL and a few other defunct fleets there. I think they have a paint company there too, that might explain the 747 if there was one there.

Show us some pictures if you have them !

[eharding]

sneijder said:

Is that Lasham ?

Lasham is 45 miles North-East of Bournemouth, so I suspect not.

[breamster]

Nope - def Bournemouth (Hurn) Airport.

First of the pics hopefully below.

[breamster]

...and some more.

Hope they are of interest.













And a couple of plane that wasn't scrapped but looked good.

[Oily Nails]

I hope to god no one there is even toying with the idea of harming that Bucc!

There will be bleeding murders if they do

[Eric Mc]

Bournemouth was the base for Paul Stoddart's airline "European". <ost of the fleet are now being broken up. The 747s were all ex- BA 747-200s.

The Buccaneer was also owned by European and had been on display in the old Bournemouth Museum hangar. The collection was moved to a new location on the airfield and it looks like the Bucc may have become an orphan.

[breamster]

That's interesting to know.

Shameful to admit on this forum I know (don't flame me!) but I've always found planes a bit errr....dull. Seeing them scrapped however was interesting hence the pics.

The 747 had chunks missing off of it - do they really break Jumbos Jets for spares?

The Buccaneer looked imaculate and kept next to the decomposing collection but not in the same bit - hopefully it will be looked after and a new home found for it.

If anyone is interested below is the approx location if you would like to take a look.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&a...

[breamster]

Correction:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&a...

[FourWheelDrift]

If you look closely at the Buccaneer you'll notice the nose cone is different, it's XX897 a test aircraft that had a Tornado nose cone fitted to test the Foxhunter radar. Seems the aircraft can be started up and do taxi runs.

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/buccaneer/...

[Eric Mc]

breamster said:

That's interesting to know.

Shameful to admit on this forum I know (don't flame me!) but I've always found planes a bit errr....dull. Seeing them scrapped however was interesting hence the pics.

The 747 had chunks missing off of it - do they really break Jumbos Jets for spares?

The Buccaneer looked imaculate and kept next to the decomposing collection but not in the same bit - hopefully it will be looked after and a new home found for it.

If anyone is interested below is the approx location if you would like to take a look.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&a...

Having been infatuated by all things aviation since I was about 8 years old, I find it hard to understand hwo anyone can find aeroplanes dull. But then again, there are blokes who get excited about marrows - so who am I to argue

I just think aircraft represent an expression of everything to do with man's humaness and intelligence - the urge to fly (which is probably primordial) coupled with the advance of science and technology plus a huge dollop of aesthetics - because to me some aircrft are as much works of art as they are machines (Concorde and the Spitfire spring to mind instantly).

Aircraft junkyards have an odd sadness about them. I suppose it reflects the fact that, no matter what a plane was capable of when it was operational, at the end of the day, it is a machine at heart and has a finite useful life - and will end up meeting the same fate as a worn out washing machine.

[Geneve]

Eric Mc said:

Aircraft junkyards have an odd sadness about them. I suppose it reflects the fact that, no matter what a plane was capable of when it was operational, at the end of the day, it is a machine at heart and has a finite useful life.

Think that's why they are usually referred to as 'graveyards' rather than 'junkyards'

[Eric Mc]

I wouldn't disagree.

[Stickers]

They are all 'Donor' aircraft with parts being recycled for use on 'live' aircraft. There's a fair few online used-parts companies/lists kicking about.


ETA:

I believe GKN are based down that neck of the woods, them being one of the biggest suppliers of parts worldwide - they also bought Filton from Airbus Jan 2009.

Edited by Stickers on Sunday 12th July 11:11

[thehappyotter]

As a point of intrest, that 747-236 in your second photo is G-BDXH which was involved in a famous incident over Mount Galunggung in Indonesia. It flew through a cloud of volcanic ash and lost all four engines, the crew managed to glide it far enough to get away from the ash before managing to restart the engines and land at Jakarta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Fligh...

[Shar2]

Wasn't the Bucc's engines to be used in a Quicksilver boat designed to break the water speed record? The boat was to have only one engine, but they kept the aircraft for use as a engine test bed.

[sneijder]

A passanger was asking me about the BA9 incident yesterday, I didn't know all the details about it so I had a quick read : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Fligh...

It looks like the 747 at Bournemouth is 'The Flying Ashtray'.

[andy97]

Looked at the European Aviation website yesterday - they don't seem to operate any planes of their own anymore.

[dr_gn]

sneijder said:

Is that Lasham ? They have/had XL and a few other defunct fleets there. I think they have a paint company there too, that might explain the 747 if there was one there.

Show us some pictures if you have them !

Air Salvage International use Lasham (among other sites) for dismantling aircraft:

http://www.airsalvage.co.uk/

I bought a scrap Jetstream from them a couple of years ago.

Cheers,

[Rico]

Cool information. I used to work in the business park there and many a lunchtime were spent wandering around.