The seemingly abandoned and semi-derelict aircraft parked on the south side of Gatwick, near the r/w 26 threshold, is an MD82 which was abandoned ( late 2008 or early 2009?) and later impounded in October 2010, when its operator, ItAli Airlines folded.
After much legal wrangling the aircraft was moved to the maintenance area to the west end of Gatwick, where it was later used for training aircraft tug drivers.
According to some reports, it has since been used for counter terrorist police training.
At some point, the aircraft was stripped of its engines and most of its other vital parts and is now just a shell.
One report says that it is destined for the Gatwick fire training area, but in the meantime has been parked out of the way in this very visible location for several years now.
Incidentally, the colour scheme is not that of Monarch, but of short lived Italian charter operator Air Bee, to who the aircraft was leased during the summer of 2008, just before the plane was abandoned at Gatwick.
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