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By: 18th September 2014 at 21:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-That was FGR2 XV499 from Leeming . I hope they don't get the Javelin too !
By: 18th September 2014 at 21:26 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Javelin still at Leeming and for sale . The YAM tried to acquire a Leeming Phantom for a good while - I cannot imagine the scrap value of the fuselage and wings was that brilliant .
By: 18th September 2014 at 21:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-If I recall correctly, the reserve price at the auction last November for the Phantom was £20k. I think the bidding went up to £18k and stalled. They should have taken it.
I'll bet they'd be lucky to have got 5% of that in scrap value for it.
Anon.
By: 18th September 2014 at 23:33 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Absolute disgrace, have we not learned anything about aircraft preservation, how has this been allowed to happen ?
By: 18th September 2014 at 23:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I think any hope of preservation was lost after they had cut the wings off it. For one in such a bad way £18k was a good price.
Like the Lynx shells, weighed in for scrap for very little, rather than sell them at a lower price to people.
I just don't get the disposals system we have now, where various dealers would rather scrap stuff than sell it for less than they want to get for it, even if the price is obviously unachievable
By: 19th September 2014 at 06:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Any photos of what aircraft are left?
By: 19th September 2014 at 10:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Are Air and Ground handling the Javelin?
By: 19th September 2014 at 11:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-View the Leeming Javelin thread
By: 19th September 2014 at 12:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-View the Leeming Javelin thread
It's here ; http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?131977-Leeming-Javelin-for-sale
By: 23rd September 2014 at 16:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I had a walk round Air & Ground's piece of runway today, which has nearly been cleared. The Phantom and Hercules cockpits are side by side, both missing their radomes and both having been cut off with the JCB 'nibbler'. The only other major items are two Lynx fuselages, XZ721 and XZ727, marked, 'awaiting collection' and two Pegasus engines.
By: 19th June 2015 at 14:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Looks like the Phantom cockpit is up for grabs at a more realistic starting price:
By: 19th June 2015 at 18:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Very nice project for someone. Be interesting to see just how "sparse" the cockpits are!
Rob
By: 19th June 2015 at 20:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Looking through their other auctions I wonder how they arrive at the start prices for their items.
£1000 Lynx Cockpit section
£5000 for the Phantom Cockpit section
Then........
£95,000 For a Hercules cockpit/forward fuselage
By: 19th June 2015 at 21:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Which squadron did the Hercules come from?
By: 19th June 2015 at 21:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-That for the herc is having a laugh
By: 19th June 2015 at 21:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-80k for a 90% complete Lynx.... Who makes these prices up
By: 20th June 2015 at 17:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The F4 is Very very sparse. It was sparsed thoroughly years ago.
Taking on a sparsed F4 would be a hell of a challenge now, not just the question of the cost of the parts, but actually finding them first is the main problem.
If you want to know who makes these prices up, look on Ebay,
By: 20th June 2015 at 21:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-If you were lucky enough to get the Phantom pit for £5k then seats, instruments and other equipment would set you back at least double that - if you could find it.
Anon.
By: 21st June 2015 at 07:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-rememeber who ever gets the phantom cockpit has to add VAT to it. So as it stands it's actually 6k. I'm sure you might be able to help with bits MIke lol.
By: 21st June 2015 at 12:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Considering they came out of service relatively recently and there were quite a few of them in service, I never realised Phantom bits were already so hard to find.
Rob
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By: Wulfie - 18th September 2014 at 20:39
I've just remembered. I passed Hixon today and saw with great sadness that the Phantom has been reduced to just a cockpit. It looks as if everything stored on the runway is being cleared. The six Hercules are now just down to one cockpit, and there are just 4 Lynx fuselages.