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Cheers,The Royal Air Force announced today that the Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial at Elvington, York is to receive an iconic Nimrod MR2.
Elvington will be the only Museum in the world to display a LIVE example of the remarkable Nimrod military reconnaissance aircraft.
Nimrod MR2, XV250 will be flown from RAF Kinloss into Elvington on April 13th where it will be maintained in full ground operational capacity as a ‘live’ aircraft.
From now XV250 will be part of the Museum’s world class collection, alongside the huge Victor V-Bomber and Buccaneer Strike aircraft and will stand as a permanent tribute to the 14 British servicemen killed in Afghanistan when Nimrod XV 230 crashed at Kandahar on 2nd September 2006.
The multi million pound Nimrod was developed from the Comet, itself a revolutionary design which was the world’s first jet airliner. Much of the development for the Nimrod was undertaken at BAe Systems at Brough, East Yorkshire, giving the aircraft a special local connection.
Nimrod, the ‘mighty hunter’ is found in the Book of Genesis, and for over 30 years the aircraft has continued to play an exceptional role in the defence of the British Isles and support in other operational theatres. The ‘submarine hunting’ role has developed into strategic military intelligence gathering, utilising state of the art equipment. The Nimrod MR2 has been described as the world’s largest fighter, with the capability to carry Sidewinder air to air missiles!
Museum Director, Ian Reed said, “We have been working closely with our colleagues in the RAF for over a year on this project and are delighted at the confirmation announced today. Yorkshire Air Museum is probably the only major Museum in Europe capable of operating large jets of this type and in this way. It is also very appropriate that, as the Allied Air Forces Memorial, we are able to make a significant contribution to the memory of those servicemen in Afghanistan and Iraq who have lost their lives and those who daily risk their lives in the service of our country”.
Would love to see pictures of that 
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And she will apparently arrive today...MartinNeedham wrote:Cheers,The Royal Air Force announced today that the Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial at Elvington, York is to receive an iconic Nimrod MR2.
Elvington will be the only Museum in the world to display a LIVE example of the remarkable Nimrod military reconnaissance aircraft.
Nimrod MR2, XV250 will be flown from RAF Kinloss into Elvington on April 13th where it will be maintained in full ground operational capacity as a ‘live’ aircraft.
From now XV250 will be part of the Museum’s world class collection, alongside the huge Victor V-Bomber and Buccaneer Strike aircraft and will stand as a permanent tribute to the 14 British servicemen killed in Afghanistan when Nimrod XV 230 crashed at Kandahar on 2nd September 2006.
The multi million pound Nimrod was developed from the Comet, itself a revolutionary design which was the world’s first jet airliner. Much of the development for the Nimrod was undertaken at BAe Systems at Brough, East Yorkshire, giving the aircraft a special local connection.
Nimrod, the ‘mighty hunter’ is found in the Book of Genesis, and for over 30 years the aircraft has continued to play an exceptional role in the defence of the British Isles and support in other operational theatres. The ‘submarine hunting’ role has developed into strategic military intelligence gathering, utilising state of the art equipment. The Nimrod MR2 has been described as the world’s largest fighter, with the capability to carry Sidewinder air to air missiles!
Museum Director, Ian Reed said, “We have been working closely with our colleagues in the RAF for over a year on this project and are delighted at the confirmation announced today. Yorkshire Air Museum is probably the only major Museum in Europe capable of operating large jets of this type and in this way. It is also very appropriate that, as the Allied Air Forces Memorial, we are able to make a significant contribution to the memory of those servicemen in Afghanistan and Iraq who have lost their lives and those who daily risk their lives in the service of our country”.
Martin
SOURCE:Flightglobal.com
Retired Nimrod will live on at Yorkshire museum
By Craig Hoyle
The UK Royal Air Force will fly one of its recently retired British Aerospace Nimrod MR2s to the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington on 13 April, with the maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft to be put on display as a “live” exhibit.
After making its last flight from RAF Kinloss in Scotland, aircraft XV250 “will be maintained in full ground operational capacity”, the museum says. The Nimrod will join other ex-RAF exhibits including a Handley Page Victor K2 tanker – a type which it operated alongside during the 1982 Falklands War.
One of the last MR2s to have been operated prior to the MR2’s 31 March retirement from service, XV250 was delivered in 1973, as listed in Flightglobal’s MiliCAS database.
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