My first scenery project........

[Scorpius]

Wish I hadn't started this now! I have sent emails to 2 former engine fitters who were both at Thorney Island in the 70's to see if they can remember the hangar in question.

On their trips to the engine bay they would have walked past the hangar.

[Trev Clark]

Sorry about that, I can only deduce it remained an empty slot after WW2. My memory did not help at all.

[Filonian]

Wish I hadn't started this now! I have sent emails to 2 former engine fitters who were both at Thorney Island in the 70's to see if they can remember the hangar in question.

On their trips to the engine bay they would have walked past the hangar.

Summat to do wi' age v t' grey cells.

I can well remember my embarrassment during discussions with Stevo after his release of the Military Airfields in Yorkshire and the "hidden extra." - Catterick, during which he asked me where the control tower was. Having spent over 18 months there, I couldn't bloody remember ever having seen one

Graham

[Garry Russell]

Oh dear!!!

Garry

[Scorpius]

Both of the engine fitters I asked regarding the missing hangar cannot remember, but I am in contact with another ex Thorney fitter so who knows?

I do seem to remember something about it having a dodgy roof, hence no aircraft were stored there. This was an issue when Herc XV181 went in on landing so the broken Hercy bird was stored in the Aircraft Servicing Flight hangar until Marshalls cut it up and took it away. It is flying again.

[Scorpius]

Drawn a blank after all that, no one seems to remember. If I do find out, will it be easy to add the hanagr?

[Scorpius]

Oh dear, this seems to have sealed it!

View of Thorney Island from the air, 1976. No hangar there.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/345384