I have heard that some items have found their way to ebay in more recent times. I seem to get some conflicting info though as to where the collection ended up I  was told RAF Leeming more recently but I’m not sure of this. What I don’t understand is why the MoD didn’t just claim it as all their property and confiscate immediately ? Maybe they could not prove he hadn’t bought it all legitimately? Either way the whole sorry saga sounds like an utter mess with no winner the result that possibly the best highground relic collection in UK may just end up split amongst private collections forever never to see the light of day. At least he was amenable to visitors to the collection and to my eternal regret I never took the offer up.

Off the back of all this legitimate legal recoveries are all but dead and no doubt illegal ones  carry on as normal, and so the source of wreckage is constrained a little driving prices higher, great if you are a dealer.

Perhaps a perfect example of how regulation solves nothing. There again it looks like the regulation is largely toothless, so go ahead anyway!