From the combined research for ‘Dedication to Duty’ we found that WR977 was allocated the Maintenance Serial 8186M – “and allotted to Finningley for fire fighting practice”.

The Shackleton ownership’s an interesting one – I also thought that it was IWM’s – as shown in here! :confused: Albeit a bit out of date!!

…I haven’t visited La Cupole and am interested in reports on it.

I visited with the family about five years ago and we all found it very thought provoking .. like a lot of the sites in Northern France!

Well worth a visit.

An email has been sent out to the Cockpit-Fest contacts that I have but there was one weblink that wasn’t included, which I know has attracted traffic to the museum website! 😀

Matt I have a bit of an idea of what’s happened so far and I’ll email you the details as I don’t think that it’s fair to post details here on the site of one of the event’s supporters. I had a similar discussion with Anon last weekend at the museum and there are some encouraging items to report.

As a bit on an update I can report that the Trophy Display Case is now ready to go over into Hangar 2 and only last night I completed the first of the displays that will accompany the Trophy Display Case – this was on the Canberra PR7 winner and I also emailed Anon requesting his details for the display.

Using this same materials a feature is also being prepared for the museum’s Dispersal newsletter, which will be printed in the next few weeks. Printed copies or electronic versions of the newsletter will be made available to all participants.

🙂 Since the event we have received one additional offer of ‘support’ for the 2012 event from a poster on here and I’m happy for them to go public if they choose to do so! 😉

Don’t forget the ‘mini-gun armed microlight’ – the Luscombe P3 Rattler Strike that’s displayed at Newark Air Museum! 😀