The Halifax File from Air-Britain notes that NA507 was “not delivered; possibly crashed before delivered? NFD” (NFD=No further details.) This is the only Fairey-built aircraft noted thus so it could well be your father’s. However, another internet source says that NA507 was operated by 415 Sqdn. The serial could be wrong, though.

Alan was a character and a true aviation person. He published my first articles in the early 1970s and many more after that. Yes, he could be gruff and we fell out once but it was soon patched up. Alan did much of the work on Aviation News from home and I remember the funny stories about vans arriving at all hours and dumping stacks of magazines. The neighbours in that posh part of Buckinghamshire were not amused! RIP.

Dave Smith

Those are WW1 GS (“Belfast”) hangars. Very doubtful if Mildenhall had these before the C-Types were built. It didn’t open till about 1934, according to Action Stations. They are certainly not in a 1942 aerial shot.

I think it was silver but can’t really say for sure.

The fuselage of the Cormoran was used as a workshop at Villacoublay until at least the mid-1950s. I saw it the same day as I took those Sahara photos on the other thread but it was too far away to be photographed. Also saw an Armagnac over the Wirral back in the 1950s. It did indeed look like a big Viscount but the piston engine sound was the giveaway! It was probably the rarest aircraft I ever saw from home in those days, apart from an AJ-2 Savage, but I digress.

I thought it might be a Languedoc but I checked this photo I took of an Aeronavale aircraft at Orly in 1961. Windows are oblong and closely spaced. Maybe the civilian version was different? Can’t find reference books at the moment.

One other bit of info – it’s about ten minutes by tram from Krakow, near the main station. The tram stop is over a little iron footbridge next to the station, as I remember. Tickets available from kiosks, etc. That wing is a good clue (an outer panel from an Li-2?). Have a look at Google Earth for orientation. The museum on the old Krakow airport is just east of the city centre towards Nova Huta. The remains of the airfield are interesting too, with some ruinous concrete hangars of Cold War vintage round the perimeter, and much of the runway still in existence.