Unlikely?

Ok Guys,so which museum would you suggest? or if it goes to a collector how will anyone be able to see it? it might as well be scrapped.

As to the armour rusting away,it probably will but not for a couple of hundred years,it still has most of the original paint intact at present. It is highly unlikely that any “passing souvenir hunters” will carry 250 lbs of turret armour away,and if they do they are commiting a crime,just the same as if someone breakes into your house or steals your car. The protection of military remains act is an act of UK law,regardless of who owns or has rights to the wreckage. I know there are those who would like to see a free for all on crash sites so they can cart off as much wreckage as they like(to sell it on ebay in some cases) and dig any site,even those known to be war graves,but like it or not the act exists,and it does so for a reason.

Alan,with all due respect I have been visiting crash sites and recording them for over thirty years and the only time I have seen large parts moved or removed from a site is when a “wreckologist” moves them. Surely you would agree it is far easier to locate a site where wreckage remains? or would you prefer to see all high ground sites cleared completely? across the UK there has been a huge amount of wreckage removed by recovery groups since the late 60’s but where has it all gone? museums? collections? scrap? if it has gone to museums then where are they? if it has gone into private collections then how is anyone supposed to find out who has what?

G-ASEA,Snowdonia national park have never had a policy of removing wreckage from sites,dispite what the rumor mill would have us believe.

I’m more than happy to discuss this subject with anyone who wants to,all I ask is they are not the sort who dig up sites without permission knowing they will find human remains,or who sell wreckage on sites such as ebay,basically those who partake in what the BAAC refer to as the “grubby” side of aviation archaeology;) .

G.O.

Unless I have misunderstood you said previously that somebody took away the armour illegally and it is now going be carted back up the mountain to be dumped at the crash site? However, you are now saying that it is unlikely that anyone would ever remove it from the mountain. Or am I losing the plot here?