I don’t think there are any plans to restore the section at the present time and if there were, the permission would have to come from the Thomas Philips Trust I should imagine.

I’ve only seen it when we collected it, but it did look like someone has already repainted the American star on one side of the section at some stage, as the other side is very faded.

We do have a member in the Group who works at Duxford and he is trying to do a bit of research on what happened to the rest of the aircraft.

ATB

Chris.

Yes, it has come from Earls Colne, left in the container shown in my pics for donkeys years apparently. I only visited the Rebel museum once when I moved to Colchester just before it sadly closed, and I remember it as being a very impressive museum. Did we really need another golf shop?! Such is life.

Anyhow, our chairman has managed to obtain this and the nice thing is that in our Historical Group (Boxted Airfield Historical Group) we have a still living veteran who was actually a tail gunner in one of these. His flak helmet is on display in a museum in Ohio. When recieved the curator thought its owner must surely have persihed such are the holes in it. Henry Farwell stayed in the UK married an English woman and although old is quite active.

Thanks for the quick response. The reason I asked is because I’ve acquired some documents relating to modifications / inspections for that aircraft, although I can only see XH 764 written, no other numbers. I’ve also in posession of the original Certificate of Inspection and Acceptance – it makes interesting reading.

Back to the top please as it’s nearly here.
And a bit of an update:

We have a former WW2 pilot from the USA coming along to sign copies of his autobilography – Clayton Kelly Cross a one time ‘ace’ and now is in his mid 80’s is coming to the UK for just a few days! As he’s not in the best of health and only coming all this way to see us you can’t but admire the man.

We are hoping to see Henry Farwell – a one time rear gunner on Marauders at Boxted. Henry stayed here after the War marrying an English girl. His flack helmet ended up in Wright Patterson museum in Ohio. The museum thought that whoever owned the helmet must surely have perished since the damage to it was so severe. Henry has comes along to most of our Fly Ins and is featured in our CD and Video of the airfield.

We have now found several (about 6) former RAF personnel from the base which is going to be interesting when they come along.
Amongst the other WW2 veterans we have Montgomerys former tank driver coming. A fair number of Korean war veterans also are turning out.

We are a small event and whilst the flying programme adheres to the CAA guidelines it is possible to get fairly close to the parked up aircraft.
The mark V Spitfire will be staying on the ground after its display.

A few more details here http://www.boxted2006.co.uk

If you live in the area look out for me riding around on my motorbike with advertising boards attached to it.

Thanks to the site owner/s for permitting my threads about this.

Back to the top please,

Thanks.