Midland Air Museum, Coventry 18/01/22

[spitfire250]

The initial purpose of my visit to Coventry was to practice circuit flying in DA-40 G-DZKY, which I had brought up from Oxford, however very suddenly a layer of clouds began to form over the airport at around 500ft, and to make matters worse, Oxford got fogged in. Rather than sit in the staffroom at the fire station (from what I can tell the only GA facility left at Coventry) and wait whilst the weather deteriorated further, I decided to visit the museum down the road.
Pictures taken on my phone:

F-BGNR by spitfire23001, on Flickr
63-7699 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
48-0242 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
959 Red by spitfire23001, on Flickr
06 Red by spitfire23001, on Flickr
XA508 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
R-756 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
WS838 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
XN685 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
ZE694 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
WV797 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
XA699 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
XF382 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
G-ARYB by spitfire23001, on Flickr
G-APWN by spitfire23001, on Flickr
VT935 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
55-713 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
WF922 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
XR771 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
70 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
58-1062 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
54-1174 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
17473 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
VS623 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
G-ALCU (Marked G-ALVD) by spitfire23001, on Flickr
63-7414 by spitfire23001, on Flickr
408 Red (Marked 1706 Red) by spitfire23001, on Flickr
XL360 by spitfire23001, on Flickr

Thanks for looking
Nick

[Samba]

So sad to see the Viscount like this, I hope she gets a good clean up in the spring.

[cwor]

Great photos. Sad to see condition of quite a few. Also sad to hear of threat to Coventry Airport itself. Feel powerless to act. I flew there in a chartered Atlantique Dakota that had spent the day giving joy-rides at Yeadon. We booked the flight home, having arranged a bus to be there to bring us back to Leeds. Saw both DC-6s there, both airworthy at the time.