New Canadian finds/recoveries?

Well there was a chap that wanted to get her recovered and donated to a Canadian Museum but that fell apart at the 11th hour.

I was under the impression it was you Mark? Has somethign changed??

Smiles, no nothings changed, just a lot of water still to go under the bridge before I would describe it as being recovered at this stage, some red tape has been resolved, but many other aspects still require resolution.

I assumed from your post another party was proceeding down the same track.

Regards

Mark Pilkington

I was under the impression it was you Mark? Has somethign changed??

Well the Avro Lincoln is finally being recovered after some red tape.

Peter,

can you advise who is recovering the Lincoln and its destination/intended outcome?

regards

Mark Pilkington

This is a great subject and one that I think fasinates many of us. Not wishing to go off topic, but more looking at the world rather than Australia, there must be many more finds to be made. When you look at the recent Hind haul in Afghanistan, you realise that there are still significant airframes that can be put back into the air.

It was stored with the RAFM ‘exchange’ Spitfires. When the Hampden became available the Spitfire moved to Skysport who were storing the Hampden and vice versa. The Spitfire then departed to North America.

SL542 – A low back mk16-acquired by a Marcel Deschamps and Jocelyn Cote from Anthony Gurak -it was evidently stored in a barn after quite a lot of restoration work

It’s the one that was swapped for the Petsamo Hampden now at RAFM so it’s not been lost for that long. It used to be a UK gate guardian not that long ago IIRC – possibly came down from its pole into RAFM care as part of the famous plastic Spitfires for real Spitfires swap which saw BM597 and EP120 come in from the cold- although it wasn’t one of the ones that went to HFL

I’m sure a certain Spitfire expert will correct me if the memory isn’t as good as it was

SL542 – A low back mk16-acquired by a Marcel Deschamps and Jocelyn Cote from Anthony Gurak -it was evidently stored in a barn after quite a lot of restoration work

Does anyone have more info on the Spitfire?

My, my, how times change. When I wer’ a lad it was a Sopwith Camel in a barn :D:D:D

Roger Smith.

Yes ,but to be Fair Roger :D, That was in 1920, and there was loads about !!:D:p:diablo:

Only Kidding Roger 😀

SX924

What Lincoln ?

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I’d like to see the B-24 near Resoulte Bay.
I understand it was substancially complete in the 70s.

Well the Avro Lincoln is finally being recovered after some red tape.

And what about crashsites then, during the eighties the wreck of a Supermarine Stranraer was recovered from an inlet, so there must be more wartime crashsites around. anyone investigating these sites

cheers

Cees

…..the proverbial spit in the barn which ended up being true.

My, my, how times change. When I wer’ a lad it was a Sopwith Camel in a barn :D:D:D

Roger Smith.

Cees, you will be hard pressed to find any decent airframes simply laying in fields etc. Alot of the airframes that survived the mass scrappings after the war,were picked up by collectors. The only recent one lately has been the proverbial spit in the barn which ended up being true.

there was that spitfire in a barn a few weeks ago..