There is: Brize, Lyneham et al etc? I don’t think Scampton could fulfil that role now anyway.

Lyneham is closing in 2012.

The wings do exist and have always been stored on the far side of the airfield to the best of my knowledge. They were moved from the hanger by the fire dump to the current storage hanger some years ago and were next to the aircraft last time I saw it. They are the original wings for the aircraft. It flew into cosford in 1981 bit difficult with out wings! can we finaly kill the tale of it not haveing any wings Please.

I don’t think it flew in. I think it was a long time before 1981 that the last flight of a Valetta took place.

Are you getting confused with the Varsity?

Relatively new Memorial to Docking Airfield.

Taken July 2006.

It was particularly disapointing to loose G-BEYF as well this year.

Reading on another forum I see there was a Special Meeting at the Calgary Aerospace Museum last week to discuss the future of the aircraft.

The museum made it clear that ”that they have no desire to retain the airplane”.

http://www.mossie.org/forum/read.php?1,3657

It is now up to the Council to decide what to do with it, and they have set a deadline of March next year to come up with an answer. (Thats a lot of thinking time).

Spoke to my neighbour last night and I can confirm he has a photograph of all 23 squadron. Francis appears on it, along with Frederic.

Interestingly he has met the crew of the other Mosquito which went on the same mission as PZ174 and was able to shed some light on what happened.

Are you the same group that was looking to recover the aircraft about 10 years ago?

Did all the Everrett stock originally go out to tender, or does it not work like that anymore:confused: