It is a military base still active and is used by the British Royal Navy

Cornwall: an airfield with old Harrier fighters and other derelict aircraft

The UK's Predannack Airfield is home to some dilapidated old aircraft, which often catch the eye of urban explorers.

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This airfield, located in Cornwall, in the south-west of the United Kingdom, was built in 1940, during World War II, as a base for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). Since 1958 it has been operated by the Royal Navy. Madmickshere published an interesting video of the aircraft that are abandoned in a part of the airfield:

Among the aircraft shown in the video there is an old British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS.Mk 1(the one at the top of this entry) of the Royal Navy, without the nose, and this Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR .3 of the RAF:

The planes have notices from the British Ministry of Defense warning of the possible injuries they can cause:

On the airfield you can also see this RAF Sepecat Jaguar, a two-seater version that has lost its drift.

There are also some helicopters, like these Westland Lynx from the British Army.

And what are those aircraft doing there? Well, they are currently used by the Royal Naval School of Flight Deck Operations to train crews to rescue air accidents. That is why some of the aircraft are overturned: to more realistically simulate these accidents.

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