Two ex/Spanish Air Force are located at a club called "The Music Box" near Barcelona,Spain at a town called San Cugat.

I visted them in 2002, look here.

UPDATE (30Apr2017): these two
C-97s at Sant Cugat were broken up following a dispute over land ownership.

SPAIN

TWIN PIONEER G-APRS AT MAINS FARM, THORNHILL (June 16th)

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Twin Pioneer G-APRS at Thornhill, Scotland

I remember writing on my 2011 to the air museum at Coventry: "G-APRS has her outer wings removed, recently new
internal wing spars have been fitted. Once some new wing braces have been manufactured, then it is hoped to
complete her airframe overhaul." Sad to see it ended up here like this..

It was moved here in 2018

Sea King ZA127/509-B at Main Farm campground.
Hopefully G-APRS will join this helo on the campground good and proper.

On my Photos by Friends & Guests (43) I documented the trans-atlantic flight of Beech D18S C-FGNR (ex/ Vancouver Air) to Belgium. A pity that in spite of the perfect ferry from West Canada to Europe it has found a last static resting place in a wildlife park not very far from Brussels, since 2015.

Put on display in Pairi Daiza's Terre di Froid, this Beech D18S C-FGNR (c/n CA-191) arrived here on 07Jul2015, after crossing Canada from the west coast to the east coast and contueing over the Atlantic until, after over 9.500 kms landing at Les Lacs d'Eau d'Heure. It has found a last resting place, unfortunately it is a mere static display.
From: www.pairidaiza.eu/en/activities/hydroplane-beech-18

Found on Tripadvisor

C-FGNR seen from the air before it was placed inside the hangar

www.luchtvaarterfgoed.be/content/rallye-tomahawk-beech-18-pairi-daiza

 

The photo shows N54607 "Euroworld 20Jun69" (data from slide).
Photo: Ruud Leeuw collection, purchased from Per Schmidt.

C/n 369 - Viscount V.814
First flight 16Apr59 - delivered to Deutsche Lufthansa 29Apr59 as D-ANAB, It brought the German Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer, to Gatwick on 16Nov59 at the start of a state visit.
Withdrawn from use and stored 04Dec69 (20.600 hrs and 21.212 cycles).
Later used as a restaurant at a glider field, in the Black Forest near Escherhausen. Still there on 23May99; no titles, logo or registration but with a white top, wide blue cheatline and bare metal belly. Dismantled at the end of May 2002 and trucked away and to be completely restored and to be used as a restaurant again. This time in Hanover, reopened as Flugzeug Cafe Am Silbervogel at Hanover-Ricklingen.
Source: "The Vickers Viscount" (- by Rayner G C Kittle; Air-Britain Historians Ltd, 2008)

Axel Klegien wrote me an update in August 2009: "the Viscount D-ANAB here in Hannover has a new red trim since about one year - check my flickr site:  www.flickr.com/flyingaxel" - look for the 'HAJ Aviation'-folder.

www.airliners.net/photo/1594211/L - "Vickers-814-Viscount D-ANAB (c/n 369) - This former Lufthansa Viscount is home to the Silverbird restaurant in Hanover, Germany." (01Oct2009)

A walkaround in 2016 with various photos: www.airnieuws.nl/tripreports

Adres: Mercedesstraße 1, 30453 Hannover, Duitsland (as per 2017) - www.restaurant-silbervogel.de/

David Ellis sent me this in Oct.2006; he wrote:
"I just got back from Bratislava/Vienna - thought you might like to add this lovely Viking (G-AGRW) to your off-airport page. She is at a McDonalds in Schwechat, a couple of miles west of Vienna Airport wearing spurious Austrian colours.
I wonder how many McDonalds aircraft there are?"
David (© photo, left)

Franc van Vliet sent me another photo of G-AGRW, taken 18Jun04 (photo right, © Franc van Vliet) .

Anno July 2011 I learned that G-AGRW was to be dismantled at Vienna airport that same month and was prepared for transportation to Bad Vöslau airfield,
known as spa town in the Lower Austria federal state, where the aircraft was to be assembled again. For what purpose was not clear.
See update further down!

Coert Munk sent me this photo (exif data has date 21Jun2014): G-AGRW at Bad Vöslau Airport.

And it so happended that around the time I update this page with above photo, I was given to read a Sep.2016 issue of 'Meer-Historie' with articles about Schiphol. This photo of Viking G-AGRW, from the collection of Herman Dekker, was in the article '100 years of accidents & incidents with aircraft at Schiphol' (my translation).

The info provided was that this was caused by a blown tyre upon its landing at Amsterdam 'Schiphol' airport.
Stairs have been placed under the aft fuselage to prevent an uncontrolled repositioning to its normal attitude when the crew left the plane...
The date mentioned is 17Feb1960.

Iain Macbeth wrote me in July 2023: "I saw the photos of Vickers Viking G-AGRW on your website and thought you’d be interested in its journey back to the UK and its intended new home at Blackbushe Airport.
There is a whole website about the plane here: www.blackbusheheritagetrust.com/
Kind regards, Iain

Peter Bakema found in May 2006 this Ilyushin IL-18 DDR-STD (c/n 180002302) for sale, at the Bundesstraße 245a, between Helmsted en Harbke, near the village Harbke (which is close to the former East/West German border).
Peter writes "the aircraft was converted to a bar/restaurant, but the persons who used to run the restaurant ran out of money. The owner now lives, with his wife, near the IL-18, to prevent vandalism. Due to his failing health he is now offering the Ilyushin for sale."
Peter, thanks for the use of these photos!

www.airliners.net/photo/382090/L
Ilyushin-Il-18V DDR-STD (c/n 180002302) - "In use as a restaurant. Located along road 245a between Helmsted and Halberstadt. Harbke, Germany." (11Jul2003)

In April 2009 DDR-STD was transported to Teuge ('Vliegtuigsuite Teuge'), the Netherlands to be converted to a luxury hotel accommodation. See photos of its arrival on Photos by Friends & Guests page 19.
Here's there website but mind the prices! www.vliegtuighotel.nl/en/

www.airliners.net/photo/ 4293113/L - Hotelsuites.nl
"This Il-18 was originally delivered in the early sixties to the East German AF as '493' but was soon passed on to Interflug, with which it served until wfu in October 1986. Fortunately it has been saved from the axeman and has now been converted into a hotel at Deventer - Teuge airport." (03Jan2017)

Michael Blank came across this Lisinov Li-2 on 08Apr07: "Devoid of all markings, this Li 2 sits, well preserved, in its own compound next to a filling station on the outskirts of the small Hungarian town of Bocsa".
Alexandre Avrane (ATDB.org) identified it: "This is Li-2P, serial 504, msn 18439504" (ex/ HA-LIP).

Jeroen forwarded me these emails by Dave: "I like your photo of the Moto-Auto Ilyushin-18 at Bakov. It sits next to the highway linking Prague and Liberec, right? Near a town called Mlada Boleslav. However you wrote that it's been there since October 1996. I'm pretty sure it's been there a lot longer than that. I distinctly remember passing it on my travels to and from Prague (I'm from Liberec) even before the Velvet Revolution in 1989. It has had a new c/s in the 90's but as you can see, the elements have faded it over the years."
And: "OK-WAJ was in service from 1967-1984, flew 23.578 hours and was used predominantly on CSA's routes to Havana. It was parked at its final resting spot at Bakov on 17Sep86. There is a story about this plane. Some Czech busdrivers pulled prank on about 300 Cuban workers at about 2 am, one freezing morning. They were told that Cuba is was under attack and that President Castro was calling them to arms, this aircraft was awaiting them at a nearby airport to take them back to Havana... Half asleep they boarded the busses and were dropped off at Bakov next to WAJ and were told to wait for the flight crew. After a while they realised the landing gear was set in concrete and that the IL-18 wasn't going anywhere in a hurry! So they started to trash what they could. Anticipating this move, the busdrivers had called the police to say that a bunch of drunk out of control Cubans are rampaging near the aircraft..."

www.airliners.net/photo/944098/L - "Ex CSA Czechoslovak Airlines, now stored next to the highway.
It was withdrawn from use on 25 November 1984 and placed here on 17 Sep 1986. It was used as a restaurant named Moto-Auto, but when I came the Moto-Auto titles where removed (you could see them just a little bit...) and it appeared to be empty. Its registration before OK-WAJ was CCCP-75451. (05Aug2005)"

www.airliners.net/photo/1701866/L
Ilyushin-Il-18D OK-WAJ (c/n 187010101) - "OK-WAJ was assigned to CSA from Aeroflot with registration CCCP-75451 in July 1967. Was nicknamed 'Podebrady', frequently used for long-range flights to Havana, Cuba and during his service flown 23 578 hours and performed 20 829 landings.
Last flown on 24Oct1984 since September 1986 ít is preserved and used as restaurant near motorway from Praha to Liberec.
Bakov nad Jizerou, Czech Republic (02May2010)

Photo by Petr Volek on Airliners.net: www.airliners.net/photo/2461761/L

Now with 'Kofola'-titles
Petr wrote: "Converted to restaurant at R10 motorway,near Bakov nad Jizerou." (14Jun2014)

The above is from Pinterest, but refers to Airliners.net, a photo by Daniel Somogyi-Toth. The text on A.net of Ilyushin IL-18 HA-MOI (c/n 187010002) "HA-MOI, operating as a restaurant in Abda, Hungarian village near Gyor."
But that photo dates from 2007 and HA-MOI has since moved!
Here's another of the situation before the move:
www.airliners.net/photo/1844816/L "Ilyushin-Il-18D HA-MOI (187010002) - Closed restaurant IL-18. Abda, Hungary (19Sep2010)"

I found http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/il-18-airplane-used-as-a-restaurant/view/google/ "Having served for 21 years as a restaurant, this IL 18 was actually removed in 2011 (2012?) from its position as seen on the current satellite image and will be probably placed at the nearby junction of the M1 Motorway because there is much more traffic there." Below photo shows the move actually happened.

Douglas C-117D 17191 (cn 43379) on an off-airport location at Hnjotur, Iceland. Photographed 10Aug06 by David Alfred Eliasson.
On Airliners.net he writes: "This ex-Keflavik based C-117D (and a Keflavik NAS gate-guard) is preserved in a sorry state at Egill Ólafsson Folk Museum. All other parts (wings, engines, props, tail) are also there, but separate."

Click the photo for a link to a larger image on Airliners.net

Niels Helmø Larsen wrote me:
"You were looking for info on DC-3 Yahoo Group about the
'Norrtälje DC-3' in Sweden.
In next issue of DC-3 NYT (to be published 1st December) I will cover the Norrtälje DC-3.

The nose section of the Swedish DC-3 was corroded, and needed a new nose. MFI DC-3 N2401 in Florida was just about to be broken up due to damage from two Hurricanes.
The Swedish brought the nose section (and some spare parts) and after transportation to Sweden it was put on the Norrtälje DC-3.
The DC-3 is now in Norrtälje again (was actually used as a Café from 1949 to 1975), painted in SAS colours."

This shows the location of Norrtälje,Sweden.
Note: in june 2017 it was moved to another location!!!!!!!!!!!

Michael Östergren wrote me in Oct.2006:
"The adress on the site is where you find the a/c. The adress is Hotel Roslagen in Norrtälje.

Michael replied to this:
"We took the nose section from the Missonary flight a/c since it was complete with instruments, radios and everything, not due to corrosion. Our aircraft in Sweden had an empty cockpit."

I know parts of N2401 (former K&K from Bridgewater,VA and sold to Missionary Flight of West Palm Beach,FL in 1996, registration cancelled -as damaged by storm- in 2005) were used, which was used as parts supply by Missionary Flight; it had the same engines as N400MF (Wright R-1820 engines instead of the more common P&W R-1830 Twin Wasps) but N400MF is still very much around so I think it unlikely parts of N400MF were used. -Webmaster.

N400MF was reported to be flying in Haiti during Oct.2006, by Alexandre Avrane
See my page Photos by Friends & Guests #42 with a Dec.2022 update.

Steve Mitchell added:
"According to the article in Flypast this was C-47A 42-24049 which served in Europe after delivery to the USAAF in October 1943. In the summer of 1947 it was sold to Scandinavian Aero AB as SE-AYM and flown to their base at Norrtalje. It was only ever used for spares. When the airlines ceased ops the hulk was used as a cafe at Norrtalje harbour, until it closed in 1976. It then went to a fire fighting school at Rosersberg."

In Dec.2007 I received an update from Rolf Larsson on the Norrtälje DC-3: "Noticed that you have some info regarding DC-3 c/n 9911 '224049' which is now preserved outside Hotel Roslagen in Norrtälje, a town north of Stockholm. Many years ago this DC-3 was used as a café in Norrtälje before being used at Rosersberg in a training school for accidents/fires etc., after that it was moved to the aviation museum at Stockholm-Arlanda airport but never on exhibition, just lying outside, dismantled. A few years ago it was taken to Norrtälje and restored and is now, in very good shape, on exhibition outside the hotel. I am enclosing two pictures which may be of interest, one was taken on 18 July 1976 when the DC-3 was still in use as a café and picture number two, below, depicts how it looks today." Rolf Larsson

sv.m.wikipedia.org:_Konditori_DC-3

In 2017 I came across:

Membership to read this group is required as well as the ability to understand Swedish..?

See my page Photos by Friends & Guests (50) for its new spot in Norrtälje
Photo: Henrik Ismarker (21Jun2017)

UPDATE 01Apr2019: 'This summer the DC-3 will be moved to the square at Hallstavik where the renovation of
the square is progressing well. It is expected to become an attraction to the local area.' (Facebook Rädda DC-3)

Annica Nykvist posted this fantastic photo on Facebook ('Rädda DC-3') on 29Apr21.

Rolf Larsson, seeing this post, (again) shared a photo of '224049', see also further above¬

Rolf: "As a follow-up to my (further down) and Annika´s pictures, I am sending a picture of DC-3 c/n 9911 taken
at its present position: a shopping area called Norrtäljeporten , Southern part of Norrtälje.
My picture was taken on 18 July 2017 and the DC-3 is still there, not (not yet anyway), moved to Hallstavik.
This is the place to which it was moved from Hotel Roslagen."

... the third (white/metal-looking) as it was on on 7 August 2001.

It is situated in a roundabout, just at the entrance to Cannes-Mandelieu airport.

Photos of F-BUOP by end of Oct.2009 can be seen on my page Photos by Friends & Guests (22) and Aug.2010 on Photos by Friends & Guests (26)

Rolf Larsson sent me an update (aug.2022): "Time again for a new picture of Beech 18 F-BUOP! Referring to my earlier pictures in the off-airport/Europe section this Beech (ex/ F-BUOP) has now been repainted again; apparently the Breitling sponsorship has ended and the aircraft is now all-white.
In May 2022 it was still in Breitling colours so the repainting must have been in June or July.
I took the picture on the 20Aug22; the aircraft is still in the same position, at the entrance to Cannes-Mandelieu airport."

And this is the 2023 update, Rolf wrote (26Apr23): "Time again for a picture of Beech 18 c/n BA-184!
I have sent a number of pictures of this Beech in different colour schemes (see sections Friends & Guests #22 and #26 and off-airport), now it has been repainted in early 2023.
I took this picture on 18April2023, the Beech is still in the same position at the entrance to the Cannes-Mandelieu airport."

Beech E18S F-BUOP @Cannes-Mandelieu AP, by Rolf Larsson, with titles added to the airframe. Photo Rolf Larsson.

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