I believe the fuselage of dehavilland Devon XA879 is buried in the bank of the Basingstoke Canal were it borders Farnbourgh airfield. This was put there after the canal burst its banks during the September 68 airshow.
In my last job I did several deals with a chap who was a retired civial engineer. He had spent most of his life working on projects with the USAF in East Anglia. After the war he was heavily involved in the disposal of equipment that the goverments of America and the UK did not want to reach the open market as there was so much surplus that manufacturing industries would have died over night, hence the reason for burying everything. I think some aircraft probably did end up in these holes but the vast majority of stuff was tools and mechanical equipment. He said that he had quite a few photos and records of the events but if I remember rightly these he had passed onto the records office at USAF Lakenheath. I remember him mentioning that he had buried stacks of tools and equipment at Duxford and also several new aircraft engines that the USAF were not going to take home. Perhaps ARCO etc should try looking under there hangers rather than around the world for there next engine! 😀 As ever you never know if this chap was for real but all I can say is that if he was making it up he was blimen good!
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