Hair Bear Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 This features in the attached link at 15:13, anyone know what it is? It looks eastern bloc to me, and plausible considering the planes in the same area but UK reg on a yellow plate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 radiomike7 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 ZSU-23-4 Shilka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hair Bear Posted August 8, 2021 Author Share Posted August 8, 2021 Soviet cold war era then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 radiomike7 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 (edited) Supposedly 6500 built between 1964-1982, many still in use. Named after the Shilka river in Russia. Edited August 8, 2021 by radiomike7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hair Bear Posted August 8, 2021 Author Share Posted August 8, 2021 Thanks, a curious collection there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 fv1609 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Actually it is 35 AY 86, not that it helps as it doesn't appear on MERLIN. There is a box that they spot before they get to the aircraft, although the NSN is partially obscured the NSC 1410 is for a guided missile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hair Bear Posted August 8, 2021 Author Share Posted August 8, 2021 Ah, sorry about that. Now then, many years ago I was told, rightly or wrongly, that flag poles on an RAF base had to have been issued with a building number otherwise they couldn't account for the upkeep/painting of said pole. Would this be the reason for the machine being issued a number so it would appear correctly in records? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 fv1609 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 It's easily done, I am dyslexic & my 9s & 6s get interchanged easily, so I had to think hard about this one. I think giving the item an ERM (Equipment Registration Mark) is a way of tracking & keeping tabs on an RAF "Asset" I think it had been an Army Asset it would have had something in the **BT** series that contains all sorts of interesting things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hair Bear Posted August 8, 2021 Author Share Posted August 8, 2021 My excuse is just having had an op on one eye it's like looking though 5 sheets of tracing paper at a water filled kaleidascope, so both eyes together is a little 'trippy'! I dimly recall all RAF forklifts were AY. Looking at the state of the plate I did wonder if it had been peeled off something else - the Bedford maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ruxy Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 SPADEADAM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Noel7 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 The character fonts and colour of the plate look a bit unusual for a UK military ERM, and both A and Y are characters in Cyrillic alphabets, so perhaps it isn't UK related? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ruxy Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 It's all fake - the 'runway' is supposed to look like such from the air. They invested lots of $£ to make it look like real eastern block / USSR. The aircraft paint is not standing up to the weather - it's the land that time forgot. Still proper business going on there but uncertain exactly what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hair Bear Posted August 8, 2021 Author Share Posted August 8, 2021 Thanks, I did wonder but I wasn't aware that Spadeadam was disused. Went there a couple of times in the early 90's but the only thing that stands out in my memory is after driving what seemed many miles into the wilderness and suddenly finding a signpost to Moscow, then later overnighting in New York. Not a bad trick in a diesel Transit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ruxy Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 My name is Manuel...I'm from Barcelona and I know nauthing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 radiomike7 Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 If I remember correctly Siddle Cook were involved with the transport of giant gas deflectors for a rocket project many years ago at Spadeadam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ruxy Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 5 minutes ago, radiomike7 said: If I remember correctly Siddle Cook were involved with the transport of giant gas deflectors for a rocket project many years ago at Spadeadam. Yes, Siddle C. Cook of Consett probably would be involved , Elddis Caravans was his other business (Siddle - backwards). That helicopter probably was the one stored for a short while in the Tyne valley (nearer Brampton) and it would be flown in on final flight approx. 6/7 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ruxy Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Forum member Robin 'heliduster' would have flown it in ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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This features in the attached link at 15:13, anyone know what it is?
It looks eastern bloc to me, and plausible considering the planes in the same area but UK reg on a yellow plate?
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