(Image: SpiderMonkey’s Photos; Avro Shackleton MR3 WR985)
This Avro Shackleton is one of several ailing aircraft that remained in situ at Long Marston after the small aviation museum had sadly closed its doors. The Shackleton MR3, serial number WR985, was among a group of larger airframes that were not relocated, and is understood to still haunt the abandoned World War Two airfield today. With plans to tear up the old runways (one of which had been latterly used as a dragstrip) and build thousands of new homes on the site, the future prospects of the decommissioned Shackleton seem bleak. WR985 first flew in 1958 and was later relegated to ground training duties under the maintenance serial 8103M. It was disposed of in 1988 and moved to Long Marston airfield in Warwickshire, near Stratford-upon-Avon.
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