All known available surviving Master parts were collected together in the 1980s and 1990s by members of the Berkshire Aviation Group/Miles Aircraft Collection/Museum of Berkshire Aviation – after years of storage they were transferred to the Real Aeroplane Company at Breighton for a serious proposition for a flyable Master project (despite being told that there were hardly any known original drawings extant). As I recall, the realities of the project eventually caused it to be abandoned and all the parts returned to the South East. Much more recently most of them have been transferred to the Kent Battle of Britain Museum at Hawkinge which now seems to offer the best prospects of a static replica being built. If anyone else has or knows of any more Master parts, now is the time to offer them to Hawkinge (or the Miles Aircraft Collection).
Incidently, I was reliably informed that a Master fuselage (serial no. unknown) survivied unitl as recently as the early 1990s having been stored in a farm building since the war very close to the M4 near Slough – I heard if its existance just too late to save it! We did save one incomplete outer wing however……this is now either at Woodley or Hawkinge.
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