Four British V-Bomber Cockpits Up For Sale
Four British V-Bomber Cockpits Up For Sale
Three of the V-Bonbler cockpits in their storage hangar. (image via Hansons Auctioneers)
Every once in a while something unusual comes up in the world of aeronautica auctions… and we’ve just received word that Hanson Auctioneers & Valuers Ltd. in Britain has a significant collection of aircraft cockpit sections coming up for sale which is bound to generate a lot of interest. This is likely the only chance anyone might have to acquire an example for each of the three aircraft types which formed Britain’s famed V Force: the Handley-Page Victor, Vickers Valiant and Avro Vulcan. These magnificent aircraft comprised the nation’s strategic nuclear bomber fleet during the 1950s and 60s. While most readers will be well aware of the Vulcan and the Victor, which served into the 1980s and 90s, the Valiant will be less familiar, as the type retired prematurely in the mid-60s, and had all-but-disappea