Landing gear leg 1 and 2. Also trawled up.

Propeller number 3 and a tailwheel leg. Both trawled. The prop is on its way out, to say at least. The prop hub behind (wooden 3-blade) was said to belong to the corroded engine number 3, but could be separate aircraft.

Engine number 3 is a V-12 laying inverted. It is missing some bits. Trawler find.

Engine number 1. I think this is a very badly corroded R-1820. Could be from one of several B-17 wrecks off the coast. Another trawler find.

Prop number 2, in mildly better condition. Another North Sea trawler find.

I built the radio racking for one of the balloon flights.

If this was for the first succesful trans-Atlantic balloon flight, of Summer 1986, it is still in there. Interior is still complete.

An immense collection of WW2 artifacts is displayed very well, mostly indoors, and where possibly is used to illustrate the story of the crews who found their last flight ending at Texel. Some survived, many did not. Some poignant stories there. The radial engine is off a Beaufort that hit a ship’s rigging (still has the cable wrapped around the prop hub). Another display has the story of a bracelet found in a cache of parts in a fishing net, traced to its owner a 156 Squadron Lancaster gunner (W4894 crew) who is still MIA. It was returned to his mother and brother, and is all ever found of their loved one.