I wonder what thought process is behind some of these disposals? Why the need to remove aircraft such as the Mitchell, what is going in its place, its incredibly relevant to the RAF story so do they expect to find an affordable RAF example or is it a case of too many people with no idea of the history of the RAF?

Looking on the Historic Military Vehicle forum this is not true according to someone who has IWM contacts. Although it makes you wonder why Pima would announce something not thats not true.

Isn’t the Beverly pretty complete internally? The interior will all have to be removed and then I would think the aircraft substantially modified to become a holiday home. If it has to be sold again I would expect this to make it much less likely to be preserved long term. Also the press release suggests that there was financial assistance provided on the basis of the aircraft being put on display surely that raises some questions.

According to the other forum the sonar images were of the PB4Y in lake Washington. I’ve not seen the images myself and cant find them online. The poster said he’d done some research too and found no record of a he177 crashing in lake konstanz

If I remember rightly the Lancaster was recovered by someone called Schaeffer as well as some B-17’s and other aircraft. It was covered many years ago in Flypast. Its fate was to be scrapped such a shame.

There is a picture in lancaster at war of an almost complete lancaster bellied in captioned as being in Russia. While there were many recoveries in Russia in the nineties they were almost exclusively smaller single and twin engined, easier to recover, store, ship and sell. Makes you wonder if the more cumbersome stuff is still there. It’s difficult to imagine that given the number of recoveries in such a short space of time that there’s nothing else?

Does it really cost that much to operate the BBMF? Obviously in general terms it does but compared to a Typhoon what’s the comparison like? Personally the flight is very special and have been seen by millions, just think of the almost hysteria when XH558 retired.