Vampires and Venoms

[Shar2]

Just been looking around Google Earth and came across these DeHavilland twin boomers on the North side of Bournemouth airport.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=50.785674,-1.8388...

Anyone know the story of why they are there and where they came from?

[FourWheelDrift]

Map isn't loading, but isn't that Bournemouth Aviation Museum?

http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mus/uk/1-b/bmouthmus.h...



Just found out why Google Maps wasn't working, it was a real player plugin that had been installed (during a Google Earth update) for Firefox by Google Updater! Their own bloody update service installed something that stopped their own maps from working.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 14th May 11:50

[Shar2]

No, the museum was on the South Side, and has since moved across the road from the airport.

[FourWheelDrift]

The museum closed in December 2007 (says on the link I posted) perhaps that is where they have moved the planes to, because the Sea Vixen is still flown from Bournemouth and those Vampires/Venoms look like the museum aircraft.

[Shar2]

Yes, the museum moved to what is/was the Alice in Wonderland site just up the road from the airports main entrance. They could be museum aircraft in outside storage I suppose. Just hope they are not still there as they really should be under cover.

[anonymous-user]

Don't know whether they are still at Bournemouth as some photos can be quite old. There was an operation called Jet Heritage that used to operate from Bournemouth.

There were a number of Vampires & Venoms flying during the 1990's based at Bournemouth.

De Havilland Aviation is down at Bournemouth aswell, they currently operate the Sea Vixen. I don't know off hand whether they own any of these aircraft.

These aren't any of the museum aircraft as far as I am aware.

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 14th May 19:29

[anonymous-user]

From Wikipedia, this seems to ring a bell.

In May 2008, the company (De Havilland Aviation) was contracted to take on the restoration of the former Source Aviation Flight, which includes de Havilland Vampires and Venoms, and to return as many jets from that historic collection to flight as possible.

[steve_amv8]

Shar2 said:

Just been looking around Google Earth and came across these DeHavilland twin boomers on the North side of Bournemouth airport.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=50.785674,-1.8388...

Anyone know the story of why they are there and where they came from?

I can't help you I'm afraid, but I know there are a number of Hurn residents over on UKAR so I'd suggest asking the question over there ....

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/

My guess would be spares and complete airframes for DeHavilland Aviation Ltd, who used to be co-located with the museum, adjacent to car parks on the south (and next to the old Marilake factory, who made the passenger cabin Mach meters for Concorde). DHA have since relocated to the north-eastern section of the airfield (during summer '08).

[anonymous-user]

I am sure they are the Source Aviation jets that were on the airshow scene during the 1990's.

One crashed on take off at an air show, thankfully the pilot got out o.k.