From Geoff Goodhall via Air Britain Information Exchange: AB-IX

“XB-HOB was a Mosquito B Mk.25 ex RCAF KA999, owned by Mexicana de Aerofoto SA, Mexico City. This company was founded by Luis Struck, who purchased KA999 from Canadian disposals and ferried it from Jarvis RCAF Base to Oshawa Ontario on 29 Nov 1946 for civil conversion.

Fate is unknown, so it may have survived the port undercarriage collapse shown in the photographs.”

From Air Britain Infomation Exchange

“RAF Wyton advise that WP 871 and WP 964 were offered for tender at the
beginning of the year. After the close of tenders an application to
purchase was submited by RAF Lyneham Flying Club and the sale stalled.

That request was turned down and apparently John Romain collected them on
Wednesday 27/10 so I assume they are now at Duxford.”

If you have construction numbers,

Gloster should be prefixed 41H/G5 or G5

Hawker should be prefixed plain: 41H

Of course.. If there are any construction numbers.. I wonder where this is?

Ray was so thorough I can’t imagine he doesn’t have the clues to your queries. He was based at Elkhart, Indiana in 1985 and had done an Avenger and a P-51 but lost interest in his Spitfire TD135.

Mark

Thanks “Mark”.. does anyone have contact details for Ray now?? perferably e-mail (if not snail mail).. I would like to ask him if he has this info thanks

Paul

I asked Ross McNeill (who runs RAF Commands) this very question back in Sept 2003.. He replied as

The K Files are a series of documents that were created 1943-45 (most in
1945).

They are Reports of Loss of Aircraft on Operations.

In essence they are the debrief reports of either evaders or PoWs on what
happened to their aircraft. Some times the info was fed back to the squadron
for inclusion in the ORB.

They can be considered similar in detail to the USAAF MACRs.

Only a small number have survived and, up until Derek looked at them, they
had no real catalogue.

Well worth a read if you are at the National Archives.
Regards
Ross”

re: “I have to carve off a bit of time to do it, I have to do four planes.”

four planes??

1) Assume current one: some Cessna or Piper to get the hours up.
Then.
2) Chipmunk (to get tail dragger experience) *
Then.
3) Harvard – Up the power….
Then?
4) fourth ??

Then the Spitfire

would you need 4 types ? I can see 3 – can anyone add a fourth?

* A Tiger Moth would probably not be required now

Another one

Christopher Lee.. 82 years and still going strong