Air salvage international as mentioned above is your best bet. Theres a very small network of aircraft dismantallers as theres a chain of custody issue with some planes – to do with bits of depleted uranium used in some fusilages. Regular scrappies won’t touch the stuff unless its come through recognised sources.
When I was looking there were only really three people dealing with whole planes and ASI deal with the lion’s share. The others seemed to only handle one or two craft a year, not that ASI handle that many more. The guy that runs it is a bit of a hoarder it seems, so stuff sits around there for longer.
If you are really interested I can try and remind myself who the other two were, I’ll have emails from them kicking about.
Scrap yards are of limited use though, ASI and others sell the bits of the airframe that they can find a market for – the pretty bits like the cockpit for decoration and the bits that engineers are wanting to run tests on, after than they are ripped to pieces before being sent to scrap – nothing is recognisably plane when it leaves, it would cost too much to transport that way. Nothing is going to get from an airfield to a scrap yard without passing through ASI’s hands or those of one of their competitors. But I know which scrap yard most of the stuff eventually ends up in if thats of use, and they are helpful guys too.
To be honest the nose end is pretty much the most expensive bit. I organised buying a BAE 147 air frame from there for about £8 – 10k, but don’t be surprised if they ask for the same just for the cockpit on its own. Even small planes are big when it comes to getting them transported – 737 sized stuff is still 3 – 3.5m in diameter and your going to need specialist transport to move it. What they might have is just the nose bit itself, rather than the cockpit, most of the planes in the yard when I was there had them missing though I can look through my pictures of the yard and see if any were kicking about. They were having a bit of a spring clean when I was there mind. Between that front cap and the windscreen is an incredibly complex and strong structure, neatly separating it from the plane in practically impossible, even crunching it up with ASI’s giant metal dinosaur is a very tall order.
What happened with your combine harvester tammy bunnet? I was looking out for it on the coverage of Belladrum but didn’t spot it