There is record in the No.8 AGS ORB of a He115 turning up at Meikle Ferry near Dornoch in 1940, though it was recorded as one which was ‘stolen’ by three Norwegians and 2 Britons.

Does that reg end OA? If it does there doesn’t seem to be a de-registered match from GINFO. If all we can go on is the A then there are probably plenty of PA28s that have been on the register.

It won’t be a paint job, more a vinyl wrap from 3M or similar, but even so looks a lot better than the normal EC colour scheme.

It’s on Radio 4 now.

I’ve come across photos of a couple of the crew / passengers online.

There is a photo of John D. Leasure on the 351st BG website, which kind of confirms it is one of the same.

On the Boston College Veterans Memorial site there’s a photo of Edwin R. Birtwell, and that site states he died in Wales.

There is a photo of a Max Marksheid on another site which lists personnel on a training course for pilots, though it could have been elementary flying training and he maybe failed the course so was re-mustered as a radio operator (that happened to my grand-dad so it did happen).

And finally on Ancestry there is a photo of a Boyd P. Dobbs in what appears to be a USAAF uniform, so it is probably the same person.

You’ll find them if you run an image search for the full names.

Is he sure they all trained on Tiger Moths? There’s a good chance at least a couple did their EFTS courses on Magisters, or maybe even something like a Hart as some of the pre-war E&RFTS establishments flew those (among other types) and they continued into the earlier part of the war.

Should also have mentioned that 44-6005 was written off as the result of a fire while on the ground at Chelveston on the 11th August 1944.

The accident report is where the correct serial came from.

We didn’t publish 6005, neither did Dave Smith in HGWs or Edward Doylerush in No Landing Place Vol.2 (though he did mention the incorrect serial as a note, saying it was incorrect), the spurious serial was published in the appendix of Legend of Llandwrog and No Landing Place Vol.1, and Terence Hill published it in Down in Wales, as did Dave Earl in Hell on High Ground. Those books were all published within a couple of years of each other and it was shortly after that the correct serial was found. Unfortunately once someone publishes an incorrect serial (or other information for that matter) it is very hard to correct the mistake as it can be re-published numerous times and be accepted as true, then you have an up hill battle.