aircraft wheel id please

Cue Twin Otter offering to display it at Newark Air Museum :diablo::diablo:

Roger Smith.

Hey, has any museum yet done a display on “what can be done with surplus bits of old aeroplanes” ???

Too rich for Newark – but as mentioned in post #6 all charitable donations gratefully accepted. 🙂

Your quip set the grey cells going and I remembered something from my childhood back in Newark just before I became a member at NAM, which has a similarity to the object mentioned by the OP.

A near neighbour (a former-Desert Rat and a Post Office worker) gave a wheelbarrow wheel to a certain local draftsman of said parish!

This item was allegedly ex-Spitfire (believed ‘liberated’ from 58 MU in Newark or the local Drill Hall Barracks) – I wonder whether it was a Spitfire wheel and whether it made it into the system? :confused:

tail wheel id

dear avion ancien, i thought by joining this forum i would not be outside our little community as you put it, yes i came to a aviation forum for aviation knowledge. all i wanted to do was help the cause i e help save another historic aircraft . i think your attitude is very negative , will the next guy ask what he has found ? my guess is if he reads this he will probability wiegh it in for scrap . by the way i have owned the wheel for close on forty years and i never sought a valuation. mike

Thanx for clarification….as an aside….my 2nd ever tail wheel (at age 13) was one off a Spitfire (also AH2184!). I found it in a junk shop in Witney, cost me £2 in 1979). I loved the size and shape and sent off to RAFM Hendon for details. I was delighted to find it was Spitfire…and went to see a Spit at Hendon (and various airshows to see one fitted).

I for one will always help where I can in identification of items….Bruce has a point, enuff stuff has been junked over the years…would be nice to save

Give the guy a break without all the little sly comments, was just asking for advice.

I had two of them Mike I was given, they went back though to go on a couple of Static Spits 🙂