Good news: recovery is now underway.

http://www.lc.nl/friesland/Video-nieuwe-fase-berging-Britse-bommenwerper-22519307.html

All in all a lovely well-researched museum with fascinating tributes to the many crew lost on and around Texel. I found out a Blenheim had gone done not 30 metres from where I was camped for the night, and later that day visited the wireless operator’s grave in Den Burg on the island. Almost every single crew has a dedicated display, with stories, photos, artifacts, and in some cases fairly chunky bits of aircraft (4 metres of B-17 spar is a fair size!). Brings to life their stories very well…

Just a small selection of the many engines on display, mostly indoors:
– A Beaufort engine with ship’s rigging cables tightly wound around the hub
– A Merlin 22 from a Halifax, trawled from the North Sea in the 1990s
– A DB601 from a Bf110
– A duo of Jumo 211’s

There is a full reverse-engineered and approved set of drawings in the Netherlands that would have formed the basis of a replica, but the builder passed away before it got off the ground. The museum does not intend to fly it. It has an original Praga B engine, I think. @Chitts: this is one aircraft that would be feasible to re-build, and absolutely unique. What’s stopping you? Fair amount of data available from Dutch sources, too…