Mark12
January 14, 2005 at 11:12 am

Cees – 1967, then as now – Halifax

I just happened to bid successfully on ebay for a copy of Air Pictorial, for September 1967, with a feature on the build of aircraft for the BoB film.

This letter therein, caught me eye. 🙂

Mark

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By: HP57 - 14th January 2005 at 11:38

Thanks Mark,

Strange to see that ad and thinking what could have been. Well, at least the cockpitsection was saved and it looks to be in very good condition now (but waint until you see underneath the bombbay, it’s all very corroded and rusted).

It does have radios and a throttle box but the latter is not completely original. When I was with Harry Fraser Mitchell at the IWM on January 2nd, and walking through the cockpit I asked him if he knew that the complete airframe was still extant in 1961. He told me that he knew and also that it had been put in a shed or hangar at the time and nobody wanted it, and that it was eventually scrapped.

But alas, it is all too late. 🙁

Cheers

Cees