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Civettone said:
Sorry Snautzer, was this picture taken at Hendon? Or do you mean to say it is now at the Museum in Hendon?
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Yes. Those aircraft are all part of the RAF Museum collection and are now split between Hendon and Cosford. The pic was likely to have been taken at RAF St Athan in Wales. Before the RAF Museum was opened in the early 70s, the Air Historic Branch kept its historic aeroplanes at different bases, forming what were called 'Station Flights', despite the fact that the aircraft were not airworthy. Colerne, St Athan and Henlow had large numbers of historic airframes, most of which survived to find permanent homes at Hendon and Cosford and other museums round the UK.

Henlow in particular was a gathering point for the RAF Museum airframes before the museum site opened at Hendon, which was at the time still an RAF base. St Athan was known for its collection of Axis birds, which included the Mitsubishi Ki-46, these birds, the Ju 87G and more in store and on open public days, the highlights were the likes of the two seat Fw 190 in the background and the Me 410 having their engines run. At this point these aeroplanes were maintained by standard RAF personnel who had no real access to archives or the information needed to keep the aircraft in tip top trim, so weird and wonderful colour schemes came out and for years, the RAF Museum relied solely on serving RAF personnel in this capacity to look after its aeroplanes without dedicated archival or specialised engineering support, as it does now.
 
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