This reminds me of a time during the 70,s. I was duty engineer at Binbrook on really bad night, when I got a call from a guy walking the beach at Skeggie, that he had come across a crashed aircraft . A couple of guys went down to look, and it was a crashed aircraft, but of the 40,s vintage. High tides, strong winds apparently dumped it on the beach. Not much left however , just a few bits of the wing with a main spar. Apparently German, although I cannot remember what happened to it. Still there I guess. Maybe this was the one under discussion ??

I was with the 74 th when we went from Leuchars in 67. Route was tanked to Cyprus , then to Masirah, and finally to Tengah via Gan. The 12 MK 6’s arrived safe without many problems ( the boss was Ken Goodwin, best I ever worked with ) and the T5 arrived by ship as she did not have the range for tanking. You are right , she did suffer a bit of corrosion, as the cocoon had punctured, but nothing major. We has a AIB inspector based with us , and after a good inspection, declared ok. She was part of the aircraft allocation to our team.
We had interesting times at Tengah, some bad ( aircraft losses) and some good times.
There was a unofficial challenge between the Aussies based at Butterworth with their Mirages, as to see who could be the fastest , tower to tower. Allegedly time was called on the challenge when of our Lightnings decided to take the ” country route” , causing a certain amount of damage on route. You cando the maths, as Butterworth was 400 miles from Tengah and I believe ( age creeping in here) the time was 20 minutes. Happy days.
I was lucky, did 2 tours at Tengah, 60 Sqdn 1960/1962 , 74 Sqdn 1967/1969.

Not sure about this one. When I was there in 59′ as well as the Comm Flt, the B of B was there with their Spits and Hurricanes. That was the year that the Spit landed on the cricket pitch during the B of B flypast. Prior to that during the summer, it was normal for the ” brass” in 11 Group to fly the Spits, ” for old time sake”. On two occasions to my memory the Spits were landed wheels up, forgetting to put the gear down !! Remember lifting one up off the runway, selecting the gear down and pulled back to the hangar ! The story goes ( 50 years on!) that bits were taken off the damaged aircraft and fitted to the fly past Spit, enabling it to fly on that day. The story goes that it was the carb that was robbed and fitted, without any post crash inspection, so I was told .
Remember well hanging over the rear fuselage whist they did engine runs , but did not have the experience of a certain WAAF !!!

MH was my fist posting when I joined the RAF in 58 . It was 11 Group HQ at the time, the aircraft were as follows :

Anson
Meteor 7 and 8
Chipmunks

Also based there were the B of B Spits and Hurricanes. So maybe that’s what you saw, although we did get numerous visiting aircraft of various types. Left there in 1960 for Singapore, but have been passed a few times, my old hangar and billets are still there, but MH brings back many happy memories, even after 50 years or so.

Tengah Singapore. Two tours, Meteor 14 , Javs and the Lightning.

Again Binbrook . 7 years of winters on the hill, Tacevals, LIghtnings ( 5 pursuit ) but loved every minute . Happy memories of both !!

Remember this well. I was a fresh LAC airframe mech posted to Martlesham Heath in 59. The said Spit was not intended for the fly past, but had to be quickly assembled as the Spit destined for the display had done a wheel,s up a couple of months earlier. M.H was 11 group HQ as well as the B of B Flt home.
We had ,I think, about 3 Spits and a couple of Hurricanes, as well as Anson,s Meteors and a Chippie. Incidentally there were nearly two down that day, as the Hurricane just got back with a huge glycol leak. Happy days at M.H. Sadly now a retail park, but nice too see the square is still there and the billets that I stayed in.