Given that none of the aircraft have props fitted I would say it a Maintenance Unit and the personnel are in tropical uniforms.

Other than that I haven’t the foggiest.

As Nick said we have attempted to identify this wreck through records at the National Archives where sadly FAA records are extremely sparse.

I would presume that there was at least one fatality in the crash at Glen Callater given the point of impact is a very steep slope.

Another approach I took was to check the CWGC registers for the cemeteries around local airfields to account for FAA RN casualties. The name(s) are probably on the list somewhere.

From Craig Fuller’s index, http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/partaircraft.htm, 192- was the prefix used on North American F-100 parts, it makes sense as NAA had a habit of putting ASSM in front of their part numbers.

I visited recently to go through accident card on microfilm and had quite a long chat with them about the photographic collection, being interested in anything relating to high ground accidents.

They have something like 250,000 images but it is not fully indexed, some are on their electronic database. The problem they have is most are not identifiable beyond it being an airfield with standard structures or a particular a/c type. If there are identifying features, such as a name or serial number then they are indexed.

Another possible source of the photos is the Operations Record Book of any resident units at the National Archives.

Some DC-3s in civilian use post war carried a Radio / Wireless Operator. I have two accident reports, one of the crews had a certified wireless operator the other didn’t, though there was 12 years between the two accidents.

The report for the first accident, BEA DC-3 G-AHCY (crashed 1949) listed the following radio equipment.
M/F – H/F W/T transmitting and receiving equipment.
V.H.F. R/T transmitting and receiving equipment.
GEE Radio position finding apparatus.
S.B.A. equipment.

The SBA was declared R1466 and R1125D, as the aircraft was ex-RAF and had been overhauled in the UK the WT / RT equipment was probably of British origin, T1154 R1155 and TR1143A.

The other aircraft was G-AMVC (crashed 1961) and that was fitted with pilot operated radio equipment. It was also fitted with an Automatic Direction Finder, ILS and Decca Mk.10.

The engines looks like a Bristol Hercules that appears to have been involved in a crash. The cylinders are Bristol and the reductions gear casing is the same as a Hercules. Although not all of the cylinders are visible counting the front row (6 visible) there only appears to be room for one out of shot which would make 14 over the two row and Hercules.

The crane looks like an AEC truck chassis and cab with a Coles crane mounted on the back.

It was shown in January 2005 at the start of that year’s series. It has been repeated a handful of times on More4 but has, to the best of my knowledge, not been sold to any of the satelitte channels unlike the Reedham Marsh (1999) and Wierre-Effroy (2000) episodes.

It is also missing from the Air Britiain Flight Testing Accidents book.

I am not sure if it will have any record at AHB as the aircraft was not delivered, the only record may well be in the company records and I don’t know if they still exist.

There might have been an accident report by AIB but almost all of the 1944 reports were never delivered to the National Archives.