Unfortunately, the RAF Museum Reserve Collection, Stafford seem to have their own ideas.
The remains of R9371 are still sitting on the same transit pallet which they collected from the CARG premises at Innsworth almost eight years ago, together with a crate which contained an almost complete cockpit windscreen frame and the armoured glass bulkhead behind the pilot’s head; together with a lot more component parts that Tony Southern collected for the proposed restoration.
That’s why the remaining CARG members would rather have the two items mentioned be made available to someone who would actually make good use of them.
Have to agree with that. Although I have found the RAF Museum staff to be helpful and encouraging in the past, I made them a very good offer for something in very long term storage at Stafford that in all instances is only of any use / interest to me, and has absolutely no connection with them. The offer was politely but firmly declined, adding that the RAF Museum do not sell items to individuals from its reserve collection (even to established projects of over twenty years existence) and any trades will always go first to accredited museums!
Hope the Halifax items do go to a worthwhile cause, and will be seen to a wider public in the future.
Rob
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