What a sight. In late 2021, I traveled to Cotswold Airport in the UK to film some amazing clips of what is arguably one of Europe's largest aircraft storage and scrappage facilities. There were a number of British Airways 747s being scrapped for parts, and a huge number of TAP A319s & A320s ready for scrappage as well. Surprisingly, there were some 727s in storage which have been at the airport for a while, and there was also an enormous Saudi 747 which had been stripped back to its core. As to be expected, the most valuable part of these aircraft - their engines, have already been removed. All together, it made for a sad sight and shows just how devastating the COVID-19 pandemic has been on the aviation industry.
Using my Nikon 4K video camera, iPhone videocamera and tripod, I filmed all of the clips in this video in late 2021. I used iMovie to edit all of the raw video clips I filmed to create this video here, which only uses content I myself filmed and fully own.
Some of the aircraft in this video include:
British Airways Boeing 747-400, arrived for scrapping in April 2020
G-CIVN (first flight in 1997)
Turkmenistan Airlines Boeing 717-200, arrived for scrapping in October 2018
EZ-A107 (first flight in 2005)
Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-400, arrived for scrapping in January 2021
TF-AAD (first flight in 1997)
British Airways Boeing 747-400, arrived for scrapping in September 2020
G-BYGA (first flight in 1999)
Jet2 Boeing 757-200, arrived for scrapping in March 2020
G-LSAD (first flight in 1989)
MK Airlines Boeing 747-200F, arrived at the airport in May 2009
G-MKGA (first flight in 1979)
Air Atlanta Icelandic Boeing 747-400, arrived for scrapping in May 2020
TF-AAH (first flight in 2002)
EasyJet A319, arrived for scrapping in May 2021
G-EZIH (first flight in 2005)
TAP - Air Portugal A319, arrived for scrapping in February 2021
CS-TTG (first flight in 1998)
Air Mauritius A319, arrived for scrapping in June 2021
3B-NBF (first flight in 2001)
Corsair Boeing 747-400, arrived for scrapping in June 2020
F-HSEA (first flight in 1992)
Boeing 727
2MMTT (first flight in 1966), arrived for scrapping in mid-2000s
Boeing 727 under private ownership and is now in storage
M-FTOH (first flight in 1980)
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