Ju-87B in Chicago

**mrclark303** · 09-15-2016 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by Flying10uk

I have heard "stories" that at some of the RAF bases where aircraft were broken up/scrapped some of the resulting metal and material was simply buried in the ground on areas of land on the base not in use. I don't know how much truth there is in this but I have seen at the Yorkshire Aircraft Museum a Gun Turret that was dug up from the camp dump at South Carney Airfield*, if I remember correctly.

*Called something else now I believe because it's now an army base.

South Cerney Aifield is today used as a mustering point for troops heading abroad via Brize Norton, the same rumours of buried aircraft go for Kemble (just down the road), certainly when I worked at the Airfield briefly 20 plus years ago, lots of material was removed from the old dump , or should I say the "official dump" ... lots of emm unofficial "dig a hole and forget about it" areas had existed over the years at Kemble, today no one really knows where.

We have discussed this issue before, that's why ex MOD sites cost so much money to sanitise prior to redevelopment !