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RAF Wickenby Memorial Museum

Stumbled across this museum website but couldnt get a list of aircraft.

Does anyone know what they have, a paper article mentioned they could have one of three Tempests.

Is this true?
anyone got any pics at the museum?

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By: Arabella-Cox - 6th November 2008 at 20:32

Thats right, bits of JB659 mounted on wooden plaques with the names of the crew crop up here and there. Newark had a boxfull early in the year when I visited.

A chap was selling larger pieces at Flying Legends this year, I forget his name (had a stand up by the F-15). According to him Wickenby were ‘pruning’ their JB659 wreckage collection.

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By: critter592 - 6th November 2008 at 17:06

Weren’t some of the Lancaster remains mounted & sold to raise cash for the Museum at Wickenby?

I seem to recall seeing parts from this aircraft for sale at Newark a while back…

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By: neil996 - 6th November 2008 at 08:18

Thats a shame, i hope they are still looking after them.

If there is no room what about a photo catalogue of what they found for the public to view?

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By: Arabella-Cox - 5th November 2008 at 23:20

No, sadly it was never on public display, I emailed them once about it, and the reply said they never had the room. It was in the crates it arrived in, in storage on site.

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By: neil996 - 5th November 2008 at 22:09

So is the Lanc on display then?

the recovery seems to be well documented.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 5th November 2008 at 19:19

And what about the tons of wreckage from the lancaster recovered
from Holland several years ago, still in their RNethAF crates?

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By: Cees Broere - 5th November 2008 at 18:56

And what about the tons of wreckage from the lancaster recovered
from Holland several years ago, still in their RNethAF crates?

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