Roy Bonser’s Aviation in Leics and Rutland confirms that Airwork worked on Turbinlite Havocs at Loughborough.

Sadly, I think these petitions are a sop to the electorate and a waste of time unless you get about 10M signatures. That’s only going to happen with “Have Blair shot in a cellar and Brown locked in an attic”…

Very enlightening comments which explain the level of effort to find the wreck and pilot. We had always assumed that the the aircraft flew into a mountain while on a low level training flight in poor weather.

Thanks Mark. It’s a great shot and I saved it merely for my own interest. Couldn’t recall from whence it came. Since you posted it once before, I guess you don’t mind it showing up again!:)
Dave

Ryan, in fairness to the IWM they are almost certainly unaware of the origins of some of their photos. They carry an IWM negative number and therefore are assumed to be Crown Copyright and thus a fee can be charged. However, some of the same stuff is available on Footnote with AAC neg numbers. Not much IWM can do about it, invading Texas not really being an option … 🙂

Dave Smith

The ex-Warton P-38J cockpit pod in a scrapyard near Blackpool which the owner said I could have for £15. That was quite a lot of money in the 1960s, apart from the fact that I had no means of taking it away. Some time later it disappeared for ever.

As long ago as that. Amazing!

I have remembered that it was in an A-B Air World mag but haven’t found it yet!

Talking about “Lancaster” is going a bit off topic but such a callsign is ideal when there is only one likely to be flying. I recall that when “Swordfish” called Liverpool Approach one day, I heard a young female colleague responding: “Swordfish, what’s your type of aircraft?” Doh! I later gave her a brief run-down on Taranto, Bismarck, Esmonde VC etc! But not quite to the point of her eyes glazing over, as tends to happen in these scenarios …