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  • in reply to: Spitfire crash site located – Normandy #764553

    We are hopeful that Rolls Royce can provide us with details of date of manufacturing and/or date of delivery to the production factory.

     

    If they have archives listing possible airframe/aircraft or construction numbers then we would be very lucky indeed.

     

    If we can link the delivery date to the production factory then we might be able to list the batch of engines under the contract number to possible aircraft numbers produced from around that date.

     

    From there we could check if any aircraft from this batch are listed as missing/crashed in the area of our crash site in Normandy.

     

    The search continues…

    in reply to: Spitfire crash site located – Normandy #764579

    Hi, no we were not that lucky. We only recovered the engine, 2 x 20mm guns, the propeller housing, rear caster wheel, and an engine mounting.

    The propeller housing revealed that this aircraft was a 3 blade Spitfire, so narrowed the search to a possible Vb or Vc variant.

    in reply to: MERLIN TYPE XLV ENGINE #764589

    Thank you I will try that

    in reply to: Spitfire crash site located – Normandy #764591

    Thank you, I have emailed them…

    in reply to: MERLIN TYPE XLV ENGINE #764592

    This is the engine after some clean up.

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