This aircraft represents a significant event in the last War and the extraordinary bravery of those crews.
I take my hat off to anyone or team that can pull this off and retrieve the plane from a very remote position.
I would imagine that several broadcasting companies could contribute to making quite a film or series about its retrieval for the Nation.
Perhaps those who took parts from it over the decades for ‘safekeeping’ might return them when the project concludes!

i wish you well.

This is a significant find and will be a huge help in the restoration.

The Stirling Project could only dream of such a find to help them in their work.

Very well done to all concerned.

As a casual observer to stories like this, then I wish you well in your endeavours.
I believe that a Spitfire wing was discovered on an Island around the UK, not that long ago which was surprising.
The idea that 50 FW190’s are buried in Turkey is remarkable – if proven to be true.
I’ve followed up on several stories during my lifetime. Some were purely rumours – others had some basis for fact and others turned out to be true!
The successes were certainly rewarding.
I heard of a plane in a shed behind an old petrol station. It turned out to be a very damaged Piston Provost XF898 which had been cut up by Southall Technical College. I bought it for £50.00!
The second was a rumour of a plane in a shed in Oxfordshire. I visited the farm and the Farmer kindly showed me to the shed. Sure enough, there were two dismantled Stampe’s inside. We couldn’t afford them but they’ve moved on now.
Both discoveries were back in the late 70’s.

Time will tell I guess with this story!

Crazy. I remember servicing a plane during the early 80’s and the owner did a stunt with it on the first flight over the airfield. It ‘went in’ to a field over the road.
A terrible tragedy for him and the family. We stressed and wondered for weeks afterwards if it was something we got wrong or missed during its overhaul.
The investigation found that it was pilot error, but the fallout was horrible for everyone. Better to fly safe – for everyone’s sake in my opinion.

I had another look at your excellent NAM web site and noted that you – Quote: “1963 – Remains of Westland Wallace located near RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire.”
Is this the one at the RAF Museum? Just interested to know what happened to it. Thanks.

From memory (and I might be wrong) I believe casein was used in the construction of my old Proctor V (G-AHTE). It soon became apparent, following the swap with the Welsh Museum for my old Provost (WW388) that it was literally falling apart. My Father worked in an adjacent workshop to where I dry stored it. He regularly heard parts fall off onto the floor! I had the entire aircraft assessed by PPS at Booker and they helped to compose a repair scheme and restoration schedule which was completely beyond me. Essentially, it required that every joint needed to be remade and the work projected was colossal. That was approximately 30 years ago. I understand that it is being restored to fly which must be a massive undertaking – given the glue issues on those aircraft.

On the same subject, I recall working for a company repairing Sailplanes at Booker during the early 80’s. Some of the glue in the vintage gliders that came through the door for their C of A’s were only fit for grounding on the spot. Pieces came off in your hand!

For your interest, and I think I’ve mentioned somewhere before on a forum, that my Father was based in Malaya on National Service during the 1950’s. A DH Hornet was running up its engines at RAF Changi whereupon both engines simultaneously detached from the aircraft and bounced down the runway. The ‘word on the ground’ was that glue failure was the root cause. Shortly afterwards, he witnessed teams turn up at RAF Seletar who cut the tails off all their squadron planes and break them all up.