This aircraft was a ground instructional airframe at RAF Morpeth (3748M). Are there any records available as to what happened to it?
Andy Hutching’s website http://www.airnorth.demon.co.uk/section3zart4.htm gives a good description of it whilst being used at Morpeth, and I can’t find any other reference to it. Was it cut up on site? Did it pass to the MU then get scrapped?
Also, are there any pictures of it, or of RAF Morpeth at the time?…..
Is this at Morpeth? http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss351/Lancaster-Archive/WP%20Source/L7419-1.jpg
Ta, LL
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th November 2009 at 13:10
Get your metal detector out….just in case!!!
By: Lindy's Lad - 26th November 2009 at 12:04
the question is: was it turned into pots and pans, moved from site, burned or buried?…… I’m trying to quash some rumours… 😉
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th November 2009 at 11:05
Robert Kirby’s book ‘Avro Manchester – the Legend Behind the Lancaster’ has it SOC 10 Aug 1944. It completed 14 ops with 207, 50 and 408 Sqns, then with 1654 CU before going to 4 AGS.
Dates as follows:
207 Sqn – 2/7/41
50 Sqn – 26/3/42
408 Sqn – 5/6/42
1654 CU – 10/6/42
4 AGS – no date given
It had a bit of an eventful career:
2/11/41 Category B after failing to level out on approach – flew into ground and bounced(!)
27/1/42 Category R after its undercarriage collapsed during a heavy landing in snow
13/4/42 Category AC after port engine fire while taxying
25/4/42 Slight flak damage to bomb bay doors
Simon
By: kev35 - 26th November 2009 at 10:23
Lindy’s Lad.
Not able to help as regards life as an instructional airframe but Air Britain states it had seen previous service with 207, 50 and 408 Squadrons and 1654 Conversion Unit before becoming an instructional airframe. No dates given.
Regards,
kev35
By: Phantom Phil - 26th November 2009 at 10:16
Where did you get that photo Lindy? Never seen one of her before now?
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