Hi just a quick note on seafires.

SX336 and SX300 LA564 and LA546 are the ones I passed over to Peter Arnold from the Warrington Bus Depot Scrap Yard ex Stretton in the mid 1970’s.
MB293 we pulled up with the assistance of the French survey ship Laroche off the Maltese coast ex Halfar 1993/94 (cant remember exactly slept since then ). I think when some research was done by a guy called Bert Chivers (not sure if he is still with us). MB293 had some history and he thought that the SX serial aircraft had seen some action in a later conflict but I dont recall the details.

I have some photo’s of MB293 somewhere on the back of the ship and in the workshop will try and dig them out.

Your IMG_0004 and IMG_0008 look like a weapon cover from a ‘C’ type wing. You will find numbers on them that will not give the actual aircraft idendity, but will reveal the Spitfire Mark. The first 3 digits of the number will be in the 300 range and refer to the Mark. The next 2 digits will most likely be 08 for the wing, then there will be a 3 or 4 digit number that are the actual detail number for the part.

I don’t know what the other part is, but it is also some kind of cover panel.

access panel from under cockpit floor I think is the rectangular access panel possibly the one from under the bottom of the control column.

The numbers on the panels and parts stamped into them are normaly the drawing number and part number of the component and also the inspection stamp.
It is very rare that any information relating to a particular aircraft will be present and this is only normaly found for example when someone has recovered items from a particular aircraft crash and has marked the items as such.
Therefore sorry but you will not be able to connect parts to any particular aircraft

Remembering the fallen

The fallen of whatevewr nationality should be remembered.If more people took the time to pu tup more memorials to the fallen then some respect and history would be preserved in these strange times we seem to live in.

Well done for the effort keep it up !!!

Anthing left in the scrap yards or at Hal Far anymore? Years back (late 1970’s) I remember a couple of big Douglas propliners in a farmers field just near hal Far? What ever happened to the connie bar which burned down, any bits or pieces salvaged from that aircraft post fire?

The DC3 went to Taqali as did the Beech c45 .The engines and props off the connies also went to Taqali. The yard on the hill with the two DC3 fuselages and canberra wings was cleared some years ago.The aircraft around Hal Far have also gone. Mr Paolo out near Kalafran still has some oddments and a radial from Ted Whites Harvard on his wall.

The yard EN199 came from is still inactive and full of all sorts of gems but not open for anyone to visit.Information via Aviation Museum.
The waters around Malta are full of wrecks as would be expected and all protected.There is no point bringing them up if you cant start work on them as they will be useless in no time. The Hurricane took 2 years from finding off Blue Grotto to raising the end result is mind blowing.