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By: - 22nd October 2018 at 13:59 Permalink
'Wrecks and Relics' 26th Edn has the 'arrival date' at Science Museum as 31/05/1992, so it must have left RAFM sometime before that, and may well have been held in storage in RAFM Reserve Collection, or displayed elsewhere, before being moved to South Kensington?
By: - 23rd October 2018 at 04:19 Permalink
Thanks Paul, good to know. I visited the Science Museum in 1992 and remember seeing it there and I found a photo of it at Hendon in 1990 on the net, so I figured between then was likely. Now I'd like to find out if it was an AHB airframe on loan to the Science Museum or vice versa when it was installed in the Camm display at Hendon.
By: - 26th October 2018 at 23:51 Permalink
Science Museum say it's on loan to them from RAFM. Whether still MOD owned or passed to the RAFM is not stated
By: - 18th August 2019 at 05:03 Permalink
Thanks Dave. If it's on loan from RAFM, then its theirs. In the late '90s, the MoD passed its AHB airframes into the RAFM's care. Those that had the aircraft outside the RAFM signed temporary loan documents lasting 5 years and were given the option of renewing every five years. That was a while ago though, dunno if that still applies. The LVG at Shuttleworth, now Cosford and the Bf 109 Black 6 also now at Cosford were subject to these 5 year loans while they were operated by these organisations. Both were former AHB airframes.
By: - 18th August 2019 at 16:08 Permalink
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By: nuuumannn - 22nd October 2018 at 00:29
Hi, can anyone tell me when XP831 left the RAF Museum and went to the Science Museum and who owns it? Is it on loan to the Science Museum from RAFM?
Thanks.