Send the Stranraer back to Canada where she belongs and put a Catalina in wartime spec in her place.

Agree re. a more representative Catalina, but while Stranraer 920 has no RAF history it’s the last complete survivor of the biplane patrol flying boat anywhere, and tells a pretty important story. I’d keep it.
Am I right in remembering that RAFM Catalina as a gift from Denmark straight out of service? Might cause some upset if it were unceremoniously dumped in favour of a more representative example.

So many other fantasies to choose from…

I’d really like to see Comet 1 G-APAS in the Science Museum in London, and one of the two Dan-Air (ex-RAF) Comet C.4s (Hermeskeil and East fortune) in its place.
The Hendon Ju88 could go back to Germany as part of a deal that saw one of the Norwegian-recovered Ju88As replace it in the BofB hall.
I’d also swap the Beaufort V in Aus with RAF history for the representative VIII at Hendon.
Ooh! And Britannia XM496 for the ex-BOAC example at Cosford? A bit unfair on the guys keeping the former a runner though…

Agreed, there’s just something “extra” about the recreations produced by TVAL-a certain je ne sais quois which makes them so atmospheric. That photo could just be France in 1918!

Ah, its because the colours keep changing! Is she the one recovered from Dunkirk? Previously coded Q?

You might be thinking of either N3200/QV, or P9374/J, both of which came from the beaches of Northern France?
X4650 came from a river bank in Yorkshire if I recall rightly-wasn’t it a victim of an air-to air collision on a training flight also involving Al Deere?

Anyway, the colours haven’t changed on any of them since their (relatively recent) first flights – we’re just in the happy position of having a confusingly large number of airworthy Spitfire Is!!

Does the Cosford 190 still have these fitted then? IIRC it was found atop a JU88 at war’s end…

What a waste! Would that one of each variant had survived… Great pictures Mark 🙂

It was pretty complete when I last went in it, with at least part of the seating installed.. Such legroom those BOAC passengers had! And the silver cutlery!

I think I had seen this before. Either way, I think it’s rather bizarre-looking. The wierd inline cockpit, and it looks way oversized for one (I realise it’s actually two) engines, in the same kind of way as the Wellesley.

The comments thread is quite something. Normal Youtube comments are full of nutters and cretins, but comments on videos involving Nazis are something else…