Yes there was an official German report as all aircraft accidents have to be investigated. I have a copy somewhere but do not wish to publish respecting relatives and close friends . Bear in mind that although very experienced he had only acquired the P-51 from Italy about a week before the accident. It had appeared at the Greenham Show. He had a teenage passenger on board and i wonder if maybe the of G was a little too aft. Must try and find the report in the loft.

Lets have Saudi laws here . Public chopping off of hands for stealing. Now thats a lovely deterrent and i’am all for getting tough . They’ve had it too good in this country

Something to do with the Kent RAFA Branch back in the seventies perhaps to commerate Arnhem or the Rhine crossing ??

Connie looks like L.749 G-ALAM BOAC “Belfast” crashed undershooting Kallang Airport,Singapore 13.3.54.

Thanks i don’t remember the name of the railway site but it was the nucleus of todays Newark Air Museum. There was the Wallace fuselage frame,Monospar,Vampire T.11 and Hawk Trainer G-AKAT all dismantled. The Prentice stood out on Winthorpe airfield till it got vandalised. the monospar was stored at Panshanger after arrival in this country .

Looking forward to seeing this aircraft again as the late Neville Franklin showed it to me (after cycling from
Cranwell),stored under the railway arch’s in Newark in the late sixties in a dismantled state and there was a book written about its ferry flight from Australia to the Uk by a Doctor in about 1964.