The following, are all to be found on the airfield at Teesside / Durham Tees Valley Airport. They are NOT accessible to the public.

A Vickers Viscount nose cone belonging to one of the Fire School Viscounts (past or present?).

These are believed to be Gloster Javelin parts.

This is the remains of a Vickers Wellington "J", which crashed in 1949 whilst performing in an airshow at the airport.

Its actually, possibly, from Wellington T10 NC430 of Number 2 Air
Navigation School which crashed at Middleton St George on 17 September 1949
during their annual Battle of Britain at Home Day killing its crew of 6.
The ANS were residents at the time and one of those killed was a Redcar man
who was a former pupil at Coatham Grammar School. It is always said that
the chute fouled the elevator but in fact it was the billowing chutes which
disturbed the airflow over the tail which led to the crash. In 2000 or 2001
there was a survey by Defence of Britain, of the bomb dump area, in fact
all the south side of the airfield, and there were plans then to recover it
and display it somehow, somewhere, but the plans fell apart as the proposed
recovery would mean issuing a NOTAM and mention of the word 'bomb' even
though as part of the bomb-bay meant the authorities knocked the idea on the
head.

(Thanks to David Thompson for the above infomation)

The remains spent a lot of the time in Hanger 2 after recovery, before being returned to its original location.

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