The control pedestal of Mr Taylors B-24 is on show at the MAM Soesterberg togehter with an undercarriage leg, and engine and some debris, the nosesection or what;s left of it is in store are remains of the nose turret.
Part of the wing is on show in the US and the rest was blown up as the wing was too large.

This recovery was subject to a tv documentary in a series called: The tijd stond even stil (time stood still for a moment) during 1975. As I young boy i saw it and was hooked on aircraft recovery. I think it;s time to find out if this series is available on dvd/

A lot of material was give away by mr Zwanenburg to his friend in the US and Britain. The tailwheelassembely of a Stirling is in store at the RAF Museum and still held air when recovered IIRC.
A lot was scrapped unfortunately and what now remains is a very small proportion/ Peter an intact Stirling or any other aircraft in the IJsselmeer is possible but don’t forget most British aircraft crashed at night and ditching was very difficult to say the least but there must be still some interesting things waiting to be found.
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Cees

Jack,

Yes but that was during the sixties, so over forty years ago. Recently there was some news about housing developments in the Markermeer, the last of the intended polders. But this one wasn’t drained at the time. There are still a lot of wrecks in the Ijsselmeer (and the polders itself, they only recovered the wrecks which were in the way during the digging of ditches, canals and building lelystad, Almere etc.)
Recentely five new sites have been found in the IJsselmeer which will be investigated this summer. So watch this space.

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Cees

Probably one from a P-47, the flat broad ones, they were used for making canoes, we have one in the museum as well.

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cees

A Stirling with spin strakes and chippie wheels?:eek:

Shall we keep this thread purely Stirlingish please?:cool:

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Cees

Any spare Mk 8 Meteor canopies about, there’s a project in need of one.

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Cees

Thanks Peter,

A great project to bring back an extinct type.

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Cees

And don’t forget the many turret cupola’s that found read use in gardens around the UK. Recently a Type E tailturret cupola was donated to the Nanton Museum. And the RAFM has loads of them in store.

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Cees