Thanks for the explanation TW, as usual I simplified the problem without understanding the full scale of the problem. The issue of the US loaned items is interesting.

Richard

My father David Hitchins was the CO of 24 Sqn from 1957 to 1959, when it was the Commonwealth Squadron and the command rotated through Commonwealth countries. We are Aussies! We lived on Base and my sister and I ( aged five and six when we arrived) caught the bus down Bannerdown Hill to the school in Bath. Dad travelled all over the world with the Hastings crews. Not one of his favourite planes. But he loved the posting and the people they met.

Jenny1

I lived, as a nipper, just down the road at Lanhill from 52 to 61 and the Hastings from Colerne were a constant aspect of my life back then, as well as the Valetta’s and Varsities from Hullavington doing circuits all day. A few years later I went to Colerne to attend a ATC camp at about the time that the Hastings were just being retired, their replacement in the form of a brand new C-130 was parked on the airfield, it seemed rather modern by comparison.

Richard

Is it perhaps a supercharger case, but thats only a guess.

Richard

Just out of curiosity,whose Dak is that also seen in the photo,?nice colour scheme!

Its KJ836 from the RAE Farnborough, became G-APML.

Richard

A North American 0-47A N4725V, was used in the final sequences of the 1965 film ‘Flight of the Pheonix’ as a stand in for the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1 which had crashed during filming killing Paul Mantz.

Richard

ok got my first stamp marking, its on the circular (fuel cap piece?) I fear it wont be any help as it may be a universal component? 🙁

very very tiny and hard to see, I think it reads V (may be a scratch) AB with a small capital “L” beside the B not inline with it but hovering above the top half of the B for some reason so thats “V?AB L” and underneath it it has “0P329” hopefully it isint a universal piece.

Its probably a cap from a 40 gallon oil drum from the Vibrol Oil Corporation.

Richard

I’ve got one of the wing attach fittings from that aeroplane….:D
(Thanks Bruce!!!)

Shouldnt you tell the people who are flying it that ones missing!