Lasham photos from the past....

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Following on from the viral 'Blackbushe photos from the past' thread lets do the same to lasham. Most of these come from the late 80's onwards so sadly no Comets etc. Until the early 2000's Lasham was a lovely open field with no barriers and genrally friendly security. Sadly the world situation and an accident between a lorry taking a cut through and a stationary 727 ended that.
Just a bit of history.. opened 1942 and occupied by several squadrons mainly using Typhoons, Mosquitos and Mitchells until the end of 1944. Then used for testing by General Aircraft ,RAF Lasham closed 1948 although site still owned by MoD with a RAE outstation.
Gliding started c 1950 and Dan-Air moved in with their maintenance base in 1954. In 1956 Airwork also moved in to a hangar across the road from the main airfield until 1960. This was later Staravia's scrap yard until the early 70's.In 1992 Dan-Air ceased operations and this became FLS and now ATC. Many a Comet, 707 and reciently 727 and 737 has met its fate here.
To kick us off here are a few of mine...


N960CC Boeing 707-1213B c/n 17634 seen here 4/9/88. Built in 1959 and served with American Airlines, broken up in Texas in 1996. Seen here sitting outside one of the Dan-Air hangars.


N346JW DC-8-63F of CLA Air Transpirt, seen here 11/10/98. Originally a VIASA machine it also flew for Iceair and Arrow air. At the time it was operating for MK Cargo and is still lingering on at Roswell.


G-BKYM Boeing 737-236 seen 10/8/1999. Was semi pained up as LV-OOO but this was not taken up, it became LV-ZSD and is now a ground trainer in Argentina. This was typical of the ex BA 737-200's disposed of in the late 90's.


N674MC Douglas DC-9-51 e Swissair and a very exotic visitor on 4/9/88. This was the support aircraft for McD's during Farnborough week. This was the year they showed the MD-80 with the UHB engine. Reciently scraped at Mojave


OO-DHW Boeing 727-223f a regular visitor when with DHL 95-04, still going as PK-YGR


VT-LCA Boeing 727-243f seen arriving 6/9/98 with the short lived Hinduja Cargo. Originally with Alitalia and then Continental, still around in california


N962L Cessna F150. Proving its not just about the big boys this was one of a number imported by Three Counties Aeroclub through lasham in 1984 to become G-BLJP, now G-MABE and based at popham.


Thants the lot for now, feel free to add. Would love to see some of a older vintage and from Staravia.

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Great thread, great photos and great info with the shots, look forward to seeing more
Martin

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From a small collection I have. G-ARGB Auster 6A Tugmaster (ex VF635) September 4th 1961. Colour silver, white, blue & dayglo. Built 1946 and PWFU in 1975 and stored at Thorney - Carr Farm, Nottinghamshire?

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RJ - Excellent idea mate... And a brilliant set of photo's bringing back to life another of our old, but well established and much cherished airports... I managed to fly with Dan Air on several occasions but the Comet was always an ear-popping experience... Did a couple of trips to Tenerife and there wasn't much left in the tanks after almost 5 hours.... They rescued me on another occasion getting home from Paris - good old Dan Air...

Keep 'em coming RJ.

Cheers.

Bill

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A few prop-liners from the past:

G-AYAH Beech D18S on 13 Oct 74



PK-BAW CL44D-4 'Senggono' on 25 Jul 82



RP-C1030, 1031 and 1032 HS748 Srs2A all in Feb/Mar 99 (were these ex Dan Air?)







and finally G-CEXS L188C Electra on 6 Nov 99

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Just loving this thread

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Adola68 love those photos, just about remember that CL44 from my childhood. The Philipine HS748's were around in March 1989 and were ex dan-air, RP-C1032 was G-BEBA, PR-C1031 was G-AXVG,RP-C1030 was G-BHCJ. I was told these were in a very poor state when returned. I heard that the pax liked to take their animals (goats, chickens etc) with them and do their own cooking on board!
oh to have that sort of access again.

rob

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When I get my scanner repaired, will have to trawl through what I've photographed over the years.

A great idea and one I'm sure will be popular.

M

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Time for a few more from when I was young and good looking, well young anyway!

A case of before and after...

4K-AZ4 Boeing 707-399C this started its life as BCal's G-AVKA before going to TAP and 11 more registrations. Seen here 3/5/97, it then became.....

9G-ALG seen 6/9/88 with First Air. This is now derilict at Luanda as D2-FCZ


N707DY Boeing 707-351C e Northwest and BWIA, not sure of the date but it became ST-APY with TAAT in 4/98 and was w/o Mwanza 3/2/00


4K-555 DC-8 Baku Epress e United, Air Cargo Spain and Buffalo Airways. Seen here 19/10/97, it was only registered in April and lasted until November when it became EL-WVD on 5/11/97 but in 18/11/97 it too crashed at Mwanza. All I can say is Mwanza must be knee deep in crashed jets!!


Finally a unknown MK Cargo DC-8, these were very common around 1998-2002, sadly a airline that did not quite make it.

next time 727's and 737's.

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Absolutely excellent photos rj.
I saw both of the wrecks at Mwanza in July 2008 - not much left at all of ST-APY as it had landed short in the Lake and had corroded to virtually nothing. It had been dragged to the shallows just short of the threshold, where it finished its days. There are some pretty dramatic photos on the net of her 'beached'.
EL-WVD had made an off-runway excursion and at the time most of the bits remained, albeit not in the right order (you could still see the airframes on Google maps for the area at that time). Thankfully both incidents were survived by their crews.
There was another (this time fatal) crash of an Il-76TD at Mwanza (ER-IBR) in March 2005, crashing further and deeper into the Lake than ST-APY, after take-off. Wreckage was not visible.

So many memories on so many levels - many thanks for posting. Any photo memories are welcome, but I'd be content if you stuck with 707/DC8s

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Glad you are enjoying all these coal burners, we are on the 727's today.

Lasham was such a laid back place pre barriers (2002 IIRC) you would enter via the gliding club and turn right along the permiter track. i would normally head straight for the airliners via giving way to gliders etc. Once across the runway it would depend on the weather. If it was raining I would just wind the car window down and take photos, if it wasn't I would get out. There was no security problems as long as you stuck to the road. There were many less aircraft about then, some visits yeilded nothing new. After the airliners it was on to the gliders. I was one of very few spotters to collect BGA numbers as they were then and there was never any problem wandering around. the gliding compertitions were always fun, and a long walk. I do remember one accident when a car hit a glider wing over hanging the permiter track. It was on tressels so hit the car at head height giving the driver a real fright. Both car and glider were severly damaged, and I guess the car was not insured airside!

anyway on with the show


VT-LCB Boeing 727243f Hinduja Cargo on 1/7/98. Hinduja was owned by Lufthansa Cargo and operated 1996-2000. This aircraft started it's life with Alitalia before going to Peoples Epress and Continental before going to India. Still alive in Brazil


YU-AKD Boeing 727-2L8 of Chanchangi Airlines, this was a Nigerian Airline founded in 1994 and was grounded in 2010. This was a Aviogenex machine seen when Yougoslav airlines were banned because of the civil war and many were leased out. This was originally a Yougoslav Air Force VIP machine and is still at Belgrade.


5N-BEG Boeing 727256 Dasab Airlines seen 10/5/2002. Originally EC-CBH of Iberia it is stored at Buchrest still as 5N-DAB


VP-CKA Boeing 727-82, this was a real Lasham regular in the late 90's ,the fuselarge is now at Hurn. Started life with TAP (seen by me 1983 at LHR) before VIP conversion to N727KS.


HZ-AB3 Boeing 727-2U5 seen 30/6/200 and still going strong today. One of those aircraft I have seen in every reg it has carried (JY-HNH 1984 LHR,V8_HM1 LHR 1985, V8-HM2 LHR 1988).


P4-MMG Boeing 727, a former Lufthansa machine that had several exec owners, now at Hurn.

Finally a mystery 727 taken c2000. It is one I can not quite remember the reg of, it is in there somewhere, any ideas??

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Lasham memories just wouldn't be the same without a few Comets. No less than 34 were broken up there over the years. I took these in 1977, including the Air Scouts machine G-APDK which replaced their Avro York (photo in the next instalment together with the Midland Air Charter Bristol Frighteners just visible behind the Comets below), the mortal remains of G-ARGM & also G-AYWX which blasted me off Moscow's runway back in January 1974 & with no noise abatement procedures continued on full power to top of climb! Digging these out reminded me that this year sees the 50th anniversary of taking my camera to Lasham for the first time, not for airliners but the dump area which used to be on the other side of The Avenue from the airfield and contained numerous ex Canadian AF CF100s & Sabres, FAA Sea Hawks etc -

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That didnt work very well did it, must have pressed the wrong link but also had a power cut during the sort process which probably didnt help. Trying just one of them again & if it works will add the rest-

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Sorted - here's the rest

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VR-CBQ then, my most memorable airframe!

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Does anyone remember the Air Terrex? 727.I am fairly sure it had been with European at Hurn.I then understand it was used by the pilot who was caught drug running in a 707 at Southend.Would like to see a shot of the 727 as i have lost my couple of snaps.

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There were 2 Terrex 727s that passed thru Lasham in 94/95. OK-EGX which was the former Dan Air acft G-BPND & which came back for Sabre & OK-TGX which was the one briefly used by European at Hurn before going to Afghanistan as YA-GAA. Assume therefore that TGX was your one - I graphed it at Lasham in 95

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I photographed 4 different Air Terrex 727s at Lasham - there may have been more!

Here on 12 Feb 94 is 727-230 OK-EGK



On 19 Feb 94 727-230 OK-JGY



On 17 Apr 94 727-51 OK-TGX



On 25 Feb 95 727-2D3RE G-BPND



And there weren't only Dan Air Comets at Lasham. The RAE's XV814 (complete with Nimrod fin) used to visit for maintenance. Seen here on 17 Aug 86

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5N-EYI Dec 1996. Had arrived very tatty from Nigeria with the old Ryanair logo showing on the tail. Seen in this shot about to depart back to Africa after some tlc and paint!

5N-EYIQLA by bestlasham, on Flickr

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You would never get away with that now Malcolm! I bet the RAF did look after you well. I hope it keeps radiating.

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Not much to offer, but these two pleased me:

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A rare shot of YU-ANU with Chanchangi titles Apr 1996. Think it was painted at Lasham but never came back as was burnt out at Kaduna Nigeria 23/2/98 after the brakes got a little too hot!


YU-ANU.QLA4.97 by bestlasham, on Flickr

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Apr 13, 2013 10:14:16 GMT 1 @adola68 said:

I photographed 4 different Air Terrex 727s at Lasham - there may have been more!

Here on 12 Feb 94 is 727-230 OK-EGK



On 19 Feb 94 727-230 OK-JGY



On 17 Apr 94 727-51 OK-TGX



On 25 Feb 95 727-2D3RE G-BPND



And there weren't only Dan Air Comets at Lasham. The RAE's XV814 (complete with Nimrod fin) used to visit for maintenance. Seen here on 17 Aug 86

I just love the Comet!