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Tornado ZA361 Passes Through the Port of Barcelona, Spain
(Image: Simon Iglesias; Panavia Tornado ZA361 in Barcelona, Spain) Of the three condemned Panavia Tornado GR1 carcasses dumped on a disused ramp at RAF Marham in 2005, ZA361 is the sole survivor. The...
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Derelict Hulk of Fairey Gannet XG882 at Abandoned RAF Errol
(Image: Gav Troon; abandoned Fairey Gannet XG882 at the former RAF Errol) They say that cats have nine lives, but there’s no mention of the number afforded to gannets. However, Fairey Gannet T.5 XG882...
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Abandoned F-101 Voodoo on the Edwards AFB Photo Test Range
(Image: Stephen Freskos – website; abandoned F-101 Voodoo on the edge of Edwards AFB) Recently featured in our epic round-up of the world’s most impressive airplane graveyards and abandoned aircraft...
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An Abandoned F-4 Phantom Deep in the Mojave Desert
(Image: Google Earth; abandoned F-4 Phantom on the Edwards AFB photo test range) Last week we featured this abandoned F-101 Voodoo, one of a collection of derelict airframes lying on the old photo...
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RAF Museum Offers a Rare Glimpse of Dismantled Battle of Britain Fighters
(All images by Urban Ghosts; dismantled Supermarine Spitfire X4590 at the RAF Museum) Visitors to the RAF Museum, Hendon, might be disappointed to find the wartime treasures of its Battle of Britain...
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Mysterious Airplane Graveyard Near Edwards AFB
(Image: Google Earth; abandoned aircraft in a small boneyard east of Edwards AFB) A couple of weeks ago, Urban Ghosts published a brief article about an abandoned F-4 Phantom jet standing out in the...
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RAF Upwood: Exploring the Modern Ruins of an Abandoned RAF Base
(Image: Dirty Jigsaw; abandoned RAF Upwood’s derelict wartime buildings) Regular readers of Urban Ghosts will be familiar with the eerie forms of abandoned British airfields, from disused Cold War...
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Simply Spitfire: Terry Arlow’s Supermarine Spitfire MK805 is the Most...
(Image: Alan Wilson; Simply Spitfire: Supermarine Spitfire MK.IX reproduction MK805) Thanks to its enduring popularity as an icon of British aviation, the list of surviving Supermarine Spitfires –...
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XV409: Cockpit of Falklands F-4 Phantom Jet Stored Near Port Stanley
(All images courtesy of the Falkland Islands Museum; stored cockpit of Phantom XV409) The surviving cockpit section of a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet, which for years had stood guard at the gate...
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Camp Alongside Restored Sea Harrier XZ494 (VIDEO)
For campers in search of a peaceful escape to the countryside, finding an ex-Royal Navy Sea Harrier parked in the field by their tent might come as something of a surprise. But that’s exactly the case...
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Looking Down the Abandoned Runway of Wisley Airfield
(Image: Dan James – Dan James Design; Wisley Airfield’s abandoned runway) The defunct wartime buildings of Wisley Airfield in south east England have long since been demolished. But this superb...
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Peter Jackson’s Full Scale Lancaster Bomber Replicas Spotted in New Zealand
(Image: Sean via Wings Over NZ Aviation Forum; full scale Avro Lancaster bomber replica) Of the 7,377 aircraft built, only around 17 intact Avro Lancaster bombers survive today – most of them in...
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XP745: One of the Last Surviving Lightning F3 Interceptors
(Image: Benjamin Sadler; Lightning XP745 and Hunter WT555) For almost two decades, from October 1976, visitors to RAF Boulmer were met with the sight of an English Electric Lightning F3 interceptor,...
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Defunct Jets Stand Idle at Russia’s Zhukovsky Airfield
(Image: Theo van Vliet; airplane graveyards: defunct Fulcrum at Zhukovsky Airfield) During the Cold War it was known as the Soviet Union’s answer to America’s Edwards AFB, the vast and secretive...
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Dive the Wreck of a Crashed Messerschmitt Bf 109G
(Image: Vincent Pommeyrol; Hans Fahrenbergers wrecked Messerschmitt Bf 109G) Resting inverted on the seabed near the tiny Mediterranean island of Planier, southwest of Marseilles, its narrow, splayed...
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Lineup of Wrecked Messerschmitt Bf 109 Carcasses in North Africa (1942)
(Image: Library of Congress; abandoned Messerschmitt Bf 109 in North Africa) This wartime photograph from the Library of Congress shows a wretched lineup of derelict Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters...
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Avro Shackleton Patrol Aircraft (WR985) at Long Marston
(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...
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Ponteland ROC: Abandoned Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post in Northumberland
(Image: Ian Gate; abandoned Ponteland ROC Post near Newcastle) From 1925 until 1996, the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) played a critical role in the air defence of Great Britain. Headquartered at RAF...
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Abandoned MiG-23 in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
(Image: Naska Photographie – Facebook) This abandoned MiG-23 Flogger is one of several defunct airframes standing quietly in a small compound on the west side of Bad Oeynhausen. Despite its faded...
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The Wartime Tunnels of Fan Bay Deep Shelter Beneath the White Cliffs of Dover
(All images by Disco-Dan; uncovering Kent’s Fan Bay Deep Shelter) In 2012, after purchasing a stretch of southern England’s iconic White Cliffs of Dover, the National Trust found that it had become...
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