RAF Gloster Javelin, Moorfoot Hills, crash date 21/11/60


[Picture from wikipedia.org]

OS 10-figure grid refs (GPS):

NT 29267 47471
NT 29353 47395
NT 29136 47445
NT 29092 47335

Google Maps display showing wreckage locations

This wreckage is located at an altitude of between about 480m and 550m in the Moorfoot Hills, in two small gorges below the summits of Emly Bank and Bowbeat Hill. Despite being fairly close to Edinburgh, I believe this site is little visited or known about.

Some significant pieces of the aircraft remain but they are quite difficult to locate. One gorge has parts of what look like wing sections, with a wheel located further down. The most unusual remains are the two large jet engines, in another gorge (and which went undiscovered by me on two previous trips to this site).

The ACSS website has some good information and photographs of the site here. The ACIA website also has pictures of wreckage at two impact points at this site, but I have been unable to find any trace of these - it is possible that they have since been cleared when the nearby wind farm was constructed in recent years.

These pictures were taken in May 2005.

These pictures were taken in June 2008.

These pictures were taken in March 2009.