Videos of Kermit Weeks' stored Lancaster project

Hi all,

Paul Stecewycz[sp?] has given two guided tour videos of the containers containing Lancaster KB976 and associated components – something I expect a lot of Lanc fans have been wanting to see for some time!

Part 1: https://youtu.be/tee6Bv4Z2HI

Part 2: https://youtu.be/iVmw8RFgel4

In part two Kermit lets slip two very, very curious bits of information: Sir Peter Jackson wanted to buy KB976; and he apparently has (most of?) an Avro Lincoln here in New Zealand. Does anyone know which machine this could be? After looking at Geoff Goodall’s Warbird Directory I’m no clearer as to the Lincon’s identity. RF342 was the Church/Arnold machine but according to Goodall is the aircraft now at Moorabbin…and of course the Lincoln photo in the video is RF398 at RAF Museum Cosford.

Here’s what I transcribed starting at 26m44s(ish):

“Part of the deal, the price, was the Lincoln as well. I mean I looked at this thing (Lancaster KB976 at Blackbushe) – I must have gone over and looked at it, I know I looked at the project because I remember seeing the Lincoln […] I would’ve seen it, I would’ve cut a deal, and I’m like ‘I don’t know what to do with this Lincoln thing’ so what I ended up doing was, I think as a buyer – as a seller deal I gave the Lincoln to Mike Woodleigh[sp? -Z] and I don’t know what happened to the rest of it but I know the fuselage ended up with Peter Jackson, and I loaned the turrets off of this which they still have, because he wanted to do the Dam Buster film […] I think ultimately he wanted to buy this airplane (KB976) and I said ‘No, not really’ but I loaned him the turrets. So they put the two turrets I loaned them on the fuselage that they kinda mocked up to look like the Lanc from the Lincoln – I dunno what happened to the wings and stuff […]”