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.

Just looked at my photo of part of the bomb assembly from 43-37667 I took about 12 years ago, the hooks are identical, though on that a/c they did not have the anti-slip catches (though there are the remains of something on some of the hooks which could be rusted off catches). However the design of the hooks is the same, even the bolt through the lower section.

p.s. you’ll never be found with 44-5005, the a/c which crashed near Barmouth was 44-8639.

Thanks for the reminder Dave, so he was an only child as I’d sort of suspected the other day after failing to find any other related births on the register. I’m glad that some relatives came forward, just shows the power of a bit of press coverage.

The link doesn’t work, you’ll have to the get rid of the stars, the forum is trying to substitute the shortened link component with ASCII for star (%2A) which is bring up a 404 error.

The following is from here http://www.accident-report.com/world/europe/uk/uk52.html

Boeing B-50D 48-091, 49th BS Upper Heyford, crashed 06-11-1952. The pilot is given as John K. Field.

It certainly has a Vickers (Weybridge) inspection stamp (top right).

Almost certainly Anson, RY is the stamp for Avro Yeadon and those reference numbers are in the format that Avro (and others in the HS Group) used.

That old list has some interesting features on it, shows up what information was & wasn’t available then.

The Blackden Edge site is Halifax HR727, it was a fairly spread out site back then. Even 10 years ago it was still well spread out but has virtually all been gathered in more recent years into a single collection. The other site on that area of Kinder is Wellington X3348.

As Dave said the A-20 was quite a way to the south between Buxton & Leek, that ‘rumour’ at the head of the Longdendale valley seems to have been a corruption of the Botha on Round Hill a little to the SW.

Just so long as the original films don’t disappear from Kew any time soon, also I can’t get my head round why they treated these records as normal Documents Online and not within the Digital Microfilm Project, as they have done with the AIR 78 series.