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March 31, 2025 at 2:11 pm in reply to: Luftwaffe Instrument Panel ID #1143343

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Definitely NOT Kranich, looking at factory drawings and pictures. The Kranich does not have the lower half of the panel illustrated as there is a fuselage member in the way. A friend who restores (pre)WW2 gliders thinks it might be from the then very advanced Rheinland glider. Which would explain the oxygen (for wave flying in the then Eastern part of the Reich, now southern Poland’s mountains, and for record-breaking cloud flying). Not certain though.

March 31, 2025 at 1:34 pm in reply to: EON Olympia 2b #1135852

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Yep. Made it back by 2 am this morning, back at work now, our ‘new’ T.21b is safe and sound in dry storage awaiting the start of the restoration.

March 31, 2025 at 1:28 pm in reply to: Dangerous instruments again (yes I know) #1134612

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Holland’s no different. A gentleman recently importing a 1940s sailplane from abroad found it impounded by customs and he was charged a hefty amount of money for the instruments to be removed and destroyed (!). Not to mention the costs involved to replace the instruments…

March 31, 2025 at 1:06 pm in reply to: Slingsby T.21 photos #1130270

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K8B: thank you! I knew about this movie (and actually saw it), but never realized this was BGA.646… Small world! I have the excellent Slingsby book at home, and found the picture. This will certainly help us decide a colour scheme later on (although we are some years off from that: the wings are in terrible condition).

WB981: I have been following the ATC thread on PPrune to see if a picture of our Grasshopper pops up (WZ795), but alas sofar not. Our Sedbergh never flew with ATC…

Attached is a picture as it is now sitting safe in dry storage awaiting the start of the restoration.

March 31, 2025 at 12:37 pm in reply to: Auster 3 MZ 138 #1124343

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If there’s any other Dutch Austers, I might be able to help. See if at least one of them is still around…

March 31, 2025 at 12:37 pm in reply to: Auster 3 MZ 138 #1124349

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Yes, there were two PH-POL’s.

The first was ‘yours’, ex MZ138.This aircraft was Dutch airforce serial R-2, then registered to the National Police Department at Schiphol on April 18, 1955. It lasted just ten days (!) and was written off in a nasty stall accident on landing at Ypenburg on April 28th, 1955.

Its replacement was NX537 (later Dutch airforce R-17) which was registered PH-POL too, in mid June 1955. It went through a variety of owners (including a museum) until it ended up in the UK (in 1991) for rebuild. It is now flying apparently as G-BUDL.

Hope this answers your question.

March 31, 2025 at 11:15 am in reply to: WW2 Defection or Stolen Aircraft Europe to UK #1107248

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Well-known case of a Fokker G-1 stolen from Schiphol and a Fokker T.VIIIW (if I remember correctly) liberated from a dock in Amsterdam. Both made it to the UK. I believe 1941. And there’s the case of the illegal construction of the DiFoGa421 which was intended for an escape flight to the UK, but was only flown in 1945/1946 when completed.

March 31, 2025 at 10:38 am in reply to: A brace of Antonovs…today. #1099397

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An-26 CU-T1254.
I’m sure the An-2 was also Cuban. Someone will come up with an ID. I know it was in an early 1980s worldwide wrecks&relics book…

March 31, 2025 at 10:25 am in reply to: Tail wheel identification help. #1096740

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I know they were bought from WW2 stock in large numbers by Slingsby Sailplanes and re-used in sailplanes. The T.30, for one, has them.

November 11, 2024 at 10:14 pm in reply to: Type Q harnass question #715654

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Thank you. But this wpuld be a very late model made/overhauled in 1957

October 1, 2024 at 6:20 pm in reply to: France, what is it and where? #720591

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Reims flying school?

February 27, 2024 at 10:42 am in reply to: North Weald C-54 Skymaster project shuts down #742081

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Apart form the C-119 reported as broken up, and the cockpit saved, there’s this:

Fairchild C-119F N3267U, North Weald, 07May89 | This 1953-vi… | Flickr

(other one is in the background). Said aircraft ended up in Namibian desert for the remake of Flight of The Phoenix.

February 13, 2024 at 9:07 am in reply to: Brewster Buffalo picture. #743019

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Very good article by Gerard Casius on the KNIL Buffalo’s.

Brewster Buffaloes for the Militaire Luchtvaart KNIL (warbirdforum.com)

The Militaire Luchtvaart Museum in Soesterberg (Netherlands) has a replica on display.

Fates of individual aircraft: IPMS Nederland – Brewster B339 (in Dutch). A small number ended up in Japan for test flying.

Remains of two KNIL and one USAAF Buffalo’s are stored in the Netherlands. They are far from complete, (understatement).

December 18, 2023 at 1:42 pm in reply to: Beaufighter Restoration #746279

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In 2011 the complete Freighter wing including the main undercarriage and crushed centre fuselage were behind the main hangar. The hangar itself (the opensided hangar) contained and engine with its bent prop. The aft fuselage/tailcone including tail wheel was in the next hangar over, together with the horizontal stabilizer, fin and rudder, fuselage barn doors and the other engine/prop. The cockpitsection was sitting under a tarp at the owner’s nearby house, on his driveway. The remainder had been scrapped. I heard that most if not all of this has gone to Canada to assist in a restoration there, but not sure when/if. I have pics somewhere.

August 29, 2023 at 8:45 am in reply to: Lancaster Merlin identification #750486

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This would be the engines from Lancaster LM508, which was lost near Werkendam (Netherlands) on 22 June 1944 killing two of its crew (bom aimer F/Sgt. Thomas Handley Duff and tailgunner Sgt. John Edward Keogh). The site was excavated in 2014 due to planned redevelopment of the area. Duff was buried in Werkendam in June 1944. Keogh remained missing until the 2014 recovery, following which he was also buried in Werkendam. The other six crew members parachuted to safety.

The aircraft was a 101 Sq Airborne Cigar aircraft, hence its eight man crew. It was damaged by Flak, and subsequently attacked by a Ju88 nightfighter that finished it off. A monument has been erected near the site, using a propeller. Smaller parts are in a museum in Werkendam. The RAF collected at least two engines and various components for a proposed memorial at or near its home airfield or the 101 Squadron base.

Complete story here: De ondergang van de Lancaster LM508 – BHIC and Monument voor crew van neergestorte Lancaster bij Werkendam onthuld (video) | Werkendam | bd.nl

Your engines may be in the pictures here: Brokstukken neergestorte bommenwerper Werkendam naar de RAF in Engeland gebracht – Omroep Brabant, I think.
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