Last year I had some messages via the forum regarding these 2 Typhoons that came down in Ayreshire. I was particularly interested in JR218 that came down in a burn behind Shotts Farm….and some rumoured (wing) remains. I am embarassed to say that I exported my messages to clear my box and can no longer find them 🙁 and I also can’t remember who originally sent me the messages or mentioned the incident (must be an age thing now 🙁 ). If anyone reading this remembers the messages or telling me about the rumours of the parts please let me know….
thanks in advance…
Dave
By: DaveR - 4th July 2013 at 00:10
Dave,
Sent you a PM….
cheers
Dave
By: Atcham Tower - 24th June 2013 at 21:16
Dave, it was probably me you contacted about the rumoured wing (from DN365?) serving as a bridge in Ayrshire. As Anne notes, it was in one of my High Ground Wrecks editions. As for Staffordshire Typhoons, the MU at RAF Lichfield had around 800 awaiting the scrapman in the autumn of September 1945. It is very possible that one or two, or sections thereof, escaped the chop!
Dave Smith
By: David Burke - 24th June 2013 at 19:23
The wings reference was in Mike’s add that ran for a good while in FlyPast.
By: anneorac - 24th June 2013 at 16:12
Not sure if it’s the same aircraft, but some years ago there was mention of a Typhoon wing being used as a gate on a farm some where in Scotland, can’t for the life of me remember if it was mentioned in an old copy of W&R, or if it was from one of Mike Cookman’s ads ?.
Bob T.
High Ground Wrecks suggests that there may have been a Typhoon wing being used as a gate somewhere near Lochwinnoch during the 1950s. Possibly from DN365.
Anne
By: DaveR - 24th June 2013 at 12:18
Hi Bob,
This is where these things always become interesting (rumours that is). I had heard that many years ago Mike Cookman was looking in the Staffordshire area for Typhoon Wing(s) that were being used on a farm as a fence. They were apparently found at some stage by an ATC unit but that is where any information I had went cold. Unfortunately I never had the chance to talk to Mike and as far as I know that information stream went cold, certainly the ATC unit in the Lichfield area had no records or memories of it. However, I did hear from a member here that there was the possibility of a Typhoon wing being used as a bridge over a Burn on or near a Farm in Scotland (an ideal platform to be able to get across in the need of an emergency which would not necessarily have been taken away afterwards). I am hopeful he gets back in touch through here!!! This could be one in the same rumour you are referring to, a completely different one or perhaps be a reference to the fences on a farm in Staffordshire.
I am hoping to go to Scotland in a few months to do some poking around to follow up some other information and I wanted to slot in following up on the Wing(s) while there.
Thanks for your reply by the way….
Dave
By: sopwith.7f1 - 24th June 2013 at 10:41
Not sure if it’s the same aircraft, but some years ago there was mention of a Typhoon wing being used as a gate on a farm some where in Scotland, can’t for the life of me remember if it was mentioned in an old copy of W&R, or if it was from one of Mike Cookman’s ads ?.
Bob T.
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