Unique Signed Robert Taylor Presentation Copy Lithograph to RAF Base Tornado F2s

  
Unique Signed Robert Taylor Presentation Copy Lithograph to RAF Base Tornado F2s. A unique'presentation copy' lithograph, hand signed in pencil by the artist Robert Taylor and presented to the Sargeants Mess at RAF Machrihanish in 1985. It depicts the fighter jets of the day, two Tornado F2's. It hung in the mess until the base was closed in 1995. Royal Air Force Machrihanish or RAF Machrihanish is a former Royal Air Force station located near the town of Machrihanish and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Campbeltown, at the tip of the Kintyre peninsula, Argyll and Bute, in Scotland.

Two airfields known as Machrihanish have existed, the first was operational during the First World War and was used by the Royal Naval Air Service and RAF, before closing at the end of the Second World War. A second airfield, which was constructed during the Second World War, was used extensively by the Fleet Air Arm during the war.

During the 1960s, it was redeveloped and became an RAF station and was made available to the US Navy as a nuclear weapons store and base for components of the US Navy SEALs Naval Special Warfare Group 2. The draw-down of US military forces in Europe after the end of the Cold War resulted in the US Navy leaving Machrihanish and returning their facilities to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) on 30 June 1995, after which the station became MOD Machrihanish and was retained on a care and maintenance basis. MACC now operates the site as a business park, with part of the airfield incorporating Campbeltown Airport. Lithograph is in good overall condition with some surface scuffs commensurate with age. Frame is in very good condition.