![]() ![]() It said: "I thought I'd just do a quick post to answer some of the re-occurring questions we get. This guidance was all laid out in a statement on the airport's Facebook page. Although seating space is limited as much of it reserved for pilots who are in between flights, a reminder that the site is an active airfield. The AV8 Restaurant is not presently open, instead there is a burger van open for customers. The airfield is privately owned and home to several business and public access is restricted. They've also said the historic site should not be treated as a "leisure facility,space for learning to drive, walk dogs or play sports" - which means no wandering over the runway or into restricted zones. The which sits between the A429 and the A433 has been open to the public since the beginning of July and you can visit Tuesday to Saturday 9am to 5pm.īut staff have warned visitors 'don't try to sneak through the gates' as they will be caught by CCTV. Air Salvage International, based at the site, are experts in taking apart the aircraft and reusing the parts.īut after bosses at Cotswold Airport spotted people sneaking in closed entrances on CCTV, they've moved to clarify the rules for visitors. A growing number of large passenger jets are currently being stored or scrapped at the airfield on the Gloucestershire / Wiltshire border including the last three Corsair 747s which arrived from a France last month. Pictures of British Airways and Corsair passenger jets parked up at Cotswold Airport outside Kemble have been cropping up on social media, as the site becomes a plane graveyard for retired aircraft.Īnd with the news that British Airways are retiring all their famous 747 fleet there's a chance more of the Queen of the Skies planes could arrive at the airfield, which started life as RAF Kemble. The place where jumbo jets go to die.The bosses at the Gloucestershire airfield being used to store and scrap Boeing 747s and large passenger planes have clarified the rules for visitors. However, even if Boeing does buy it back, there is little interest in such a large aircraft right now for commercial purposes, since the international health crisis sealed the fate of the 747 as a commercial plane.Īt the 3.16-minute mark, the Boeing 747-8 registration number N458BJ takes off from Basel, Switzerland, destination Pinal Airpark. There is a chance that it might be repurposed if Boeing buys it back, and the move to the U.S. The same media outlet notes that N458BJ is probably scheduled for part-out, which means it will be disassembled and sold piece by piece. Pinal Airpark is a single-runway airfield outside of Tucson, Arizona, which also happens to be one of the most famous aircraft graveyards in the world and, because of it, home of some of the most iconic flying machines ever. The video below shows the final takeoff of this brand-new, majestic aircraft that never got put to proper usage, but which is believed to have cost over $300 million. ![]() ![]() Last week, the 2012 Boeing took off for what will most likely become its final flight, arriving at the Pinal Airpark in the Marana desert 11 hours later. N458BJ only ever clocked 42 hours of flight time, which, according to Simple Flying, is what a commercial airline totals in a matter of days and a private jet in weeks – and they consisted mostly of test flights. The Sultan passed away before the customization was complete, so the jumbo jet was abandoned – and seemingly forgotten – at the Basel airport in Switzerland for a full decade. The Boeing 747-8 was ordered new, but that was never enough for royal heads, so it was sent for a full VIP refit. Delivered in 2012 to the Saudi Arabian Royal Flight group for the personal use of prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, N458BJ was never even used as it was meant to. ![]()
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