Aviation Archeology in the UK

Thanks TT,

If you look at the surplus and wants section there are some very exciting projects going on at the moment.

Cheers

Cees

http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/

Still lots going on – try and get a copy of Aviation Archaeologist from the BAAC…

All the best

TT

I’m thinking of the 161(SD) squadron Halifax from Tempsford that used to lie on Great Cobb Island , it was on an arms drop for the resistance . the contents of the broken canisters including Sten guns and grenades were evident in the late 1970’s.
The Essex Aviation Group investigated this site before I joined them.

have noticed a fair bit still comes up on an auction site,but dont know if these are recent digs or not

Some of these are from old digs and some even well known such as the Time Team Spitfire dig in France. Lately some items from the Halifax that crashed near Walton-on-the-Naze have appeared on e-bay. This crashed very close to where the RAF Museum’s Hurricane wreck was recovered. The wreck was recovered by an ATC unit I believe (the Halifax that is).

Some propblades were used in a monument, but the wreckage was quite substantial up until the seventies.

Anyone know more of it?

Cheers

Cees

has anyone contacted Teeside airport for a dig on the far side of the airfield where 428 sqdn dispersals are? There should be a good dig at this area before it gets developed

have noticed a fair bit still comes up on an auction site,but dont know if these are recent digs or not

Running out of wrecks sites in Holland Cees? :diablo:

Hmm, actually thinking of exporting some to the UK. :dev2: :p

Cees

I would hazard a guess that the most accessible sites have been ‘done’, although to what degree of profficiency the early digs were undertaken to will never be known, unless the sites were re-excavated. I remember the JU88 crash site in Epping forest that was ‘dug’ in the late 1960’s by one group , it was not until 1982 that the site was redug by yet another group with quite a lot emerging from the hole along with a pair of bombs!.
I now concentrate on old airfields, quite a few smaller items can be gleaned from behind the site of dispersals etc.
I was talking not so long ago with one of the chaps from the group at East Kirkby, I got the impression that there were a few digs lined up in the Lincolnshire area.

Hi chaps,

What’s the status of the aviation archeology scene in the UK? Are there still any groups actively involved in wreck recovery or have most sites been investigated already (exept the ones Nick Wotherspoon and Colin Wingrave reported on).

Cheers

Cees

Running out of wrecks sites in Holland Cees? :diablo: