Hello everyone,
I live in the Netherlands and together with some friends i regularly go on field ‘excursion’ trips to find some ww2 related items.
During these trips we managed to find 2 different post-ww2 era dutch air force jet crash ****es with a lot of parts.
Now recently we found a third crash location.
The parts, state of them, corrosion etc. etc. are the same as the other two jets.
We can not find anything about post-ww2 crashes on this location though – which are all registered in our area.
Therefore we started looking towards ww2 aircraft. There are several aircraft which are thought to be crashed in this particular area – without any given pin point location.
Our findings:
-many many very small sheet metal pieces (light weight).
most of them metal coloured – but also some green, some grey/blue-ish and some yellow (primer) coloured.
some with rivets
-some larger pieces sheet metal, some with rivets
-loose rivets and nuts
-many thick pieces of light weight metal – a lot of them with black paint on one side – believed to be engine casing
-some (round shaped) plastic pieces
-a couple of odd shaped objects
Now these are the numbers and inspector stamps found:
-30008 2063 (oval stamp: GBW 120) BE 572 ….. 605
-30008 4085 (round stamp: OV 150) B27
-30020
-316…
-on a nut: 764/2 .53 .93 (round stamp: VL 3)
-on plastic part: J862
-SHTI11 78 (round stamp: 6S 240)
-coupling with the mark: AM with a crown)
*What i found is that all Spitfire aircraft had partnumbers starting with 300…..
*The AM marking stands for Air Ministry
*We can not find any information about these inspector stamps though….
With al this information we think we found a Spitfire. Maybe a missing crashed one?
Can anyone give ideas about this?
Is this most likely a Spitfire? Is it possible that this could be Hurricane IIb BE572? (a number which can be seen on one of the partnumbers).
Do british ww2 aircraft have their reg.no. also implemented into some partnumbers stamped on parts?
Some photographs:
i hope someone can help us identifying these pieces… it would really help us in our search for this aircraft!
regards,
Jarno Boer
By: Spiteful - 17th April 2017 at 10:09
Hi, any more luck in identifying this aircraft? Did I see a post which had some fragments of skin with paint on still? Thanks
By: oldgit158 - 7th April 2017 at 13:36
how do you know? I have some parts of a seafire that also start with 300
I believe Dawn patrol was part of the team who rebuilt Spitfire Mk Vb BL370 which now resides in America.
As most know both aircraft shared many parts over the time of production, question how many seafires were lost in action or accident compared to Spifires over the Netherlands.
I would certainly put my money on a Spitfire 🙂
Regards
Jason
By: brataccas - 6th April 2017 at 17:24
Hi Jarno
Defiantly a Spitfire,
how do you know? I have some parts of a seafire that also start with 300
By: Jarnob - 6th April 2017 at 12:51
Yes i checked SGLO. There is one which makes a big chance upon being the one we found – need some more research though.
A second one could also be the aircraft – hen again many more have unknow crash locations….
By: ericmunk - 6th April 2017 at 08:36
Have you checked yhe SGLO verliesregister yet?
By: Mark12 - 6th April 2017 at 08:14
*And is it in any way possible to identify a Spitfire (serial number) merely by these partnumbers/inspector stamps …?
I’m afraid not.
If by the remotest of chances that you found either the cockpit or firewall data plates there would be a possibility that it might have a relationship to a known construction number and RAF serial tie-up.
The route to the RAF serial will be through local knowledge, date of crash etc then a search through the ORB’s of units operating in the area. A big task.
Mark
By: Jarnob - 6th April 2017 at 07:58
Thank you very much for both your answers!
Could you please clarify the identified objects: the Gun Panel Catch is the part on the 4th photo? (with red text) and which one is from the Control Column Mount?
*And is it in any way possible to identify a Spitfire (serial number) merely by these partnumbers/inspector stamps …?
We are planning to dig up some more parts in the next weeks. I will post photo’s when we find anything else which differs from the parts already found.
Thanx again for your help!
By: Rocketeer - 5th April 2017 at 23:46
Just beat me to it Ju!!
By: Rocketeer - 5th April 2017 at 23:45
Yep, Spitfire. Gun panel catch, tube for control column mount
By: thedawnpatrol - 5th April 2017 at 23:45
Hi Jarno
Defiantly a Spitfire, the 30008 number denotes ‘wing’ parts, the small fastener in your hand is from the wing gun panels and there were several of these on each aircraft.
Good luck trying to identify which one.
Jules
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