World aviation museum and gate guard map

[Nick]

I think I spotted a couple of changes for you while looking at Martin State Airport.

First up is that the HU-16 at the top really looks like a C-130 on satellite view and Streetview    https://goo.gl/maps/8XooYLMxK3o4AU247

Down on the east side near Lynbrook Road past the gatehouse is an A-10 Thunderbolt. https://goo.gl/maps/gQCuZL2zmpVGdY9X6

[reddfoxx]

I will check them out, thanks!

[reddfoxx]

Updated and pictures added at Martin State.  The F-86 is still there.  Wonder where the Albatross is?  Spottingmode has updated their info too, just last week, and says it is moving to a new, unknown site.

[reddfoxx]

We now have 11000 sites on the map!  1885 museums, 8012 gate guards and other preserved planes, and 1103 miscellaneous (memorials, etc.) I figure we have almost all the museums in the world (there are always a few more) and about half of the display planes.  Give me a few more years to add the rest...

Thanks for your support.  Please keep posting your museum and preserved plane finds.

Facebook group- The International Aviation Museum Guide
https://www.facebook.com/groups/365080863684050

map link:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=14nb7XSdTw61sS4gR8sJdJXHC2Qdl9zZL&usp=sharing

[Nick]

A little oddity I spotted in London yesterday outside an EasyJet / EasyBus / EasyFood warehouse. Looks like the tail of a Boeing 737! https://easy.com/easyland-gets-new-exhibit/

https://goo.gl/maps/Vhyn4TFcFJ1nQvLs9

[Nick]

Get Those Motherloving Steaks Off My Motherloving Plane!     https://goo.gl/maps/Fko29UL8954WXZPA8

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/steaks-on-a-plane-bolton--12797302

This is also a Boeing 737... wonder if it's the other half of the Easyjet one?

[ericr]

 

doable in plastic as a diorama !

[reddfoxx]

Added the tail, already had the steak place!

[Rheged]

You may already have this one, but the information could be useful

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-58692957


Article refers to a Blenheim, but the pic on the memorial stone looks like a Beaufighter to me.

[reddfoxx]

Just saw this, Rheged, sorry.  Haven't been on in awhile.  Added, as a point near the school.  Surely it was a Blenheim, based on the date, crash photo, and number of crew.

[Rheged]

Just saw this, Rheged, sorry.  Haven't been on in awhile.  Added, as a point near the school.  Surely it was a Blenheim, based on the date, crash photo, and number of crew.

Don't apologise! We all know  that reality sometimes intrudes!

[reddfoxx]

Life has been busy.  But I am also working on the map, even if more slowly.  Somehow I just didn't check back on this site for awhile. 

[Nick]

One you can take off the map is the Tornado at Bicester, UK. Tornado ZA319 has now arrived at Boscombe Down museum where it is undergoing a rebuild and major clean before going indoors.
It was one of the early GR.1(T) versions which had extra flight controls in the back seat.

https://www.bicesteradvertiser.net/news/18975021.arncott-tornado-plane-lane-will-go-museum-instead-scrapped/

https://twitter.com/BDACatOldSarum/status/1461039774979010571


One you can add is Tornado XZ630 at RAF Halton. You can see it here on the Parade ground: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7778308,-0.72003,490m/data=!3m1!1e3

It's famous for being flown without a canopy! https://theaviationgeekclub.com/heres-why-bae-test-pilot-keith-hartley-flew-this-tornado-with-the-canopy-off/

[reddfoxx]

Removed the Tornado from Bicester, and it looks like it is now at the Trenchard Museum, which is already on the map.  Thanks!  I need to go back through the UK.  I just looked at Texas again and doubled the sites there from 150 to 300 or so, finding a few small museums along the way.

[PR19_Kit]

I went past RAF Croughton last week (Infamous for people driving on the wrong side of the road....) and the F-100 and F-105 that used to be on guard at the gate have vanished.