Always worth keeping an eye out, Anon! Very nice and would grace any Battle of Britain panel display. Air Britain has NC425 as a Wellington X delivered between June and December 44 by Vickers Armstrongs Squires Gate. Served with 2 Air Navigation School and struck off charge 23/2/50.

A Browning, but not off a Spit. I’m surprised it hasn’t been pulled by ebay yet.

A trip to Duxford with a tape measure would be a good start, the Typhoon cockpit section is very accessible. Here are some pics from a fortnight ago. My head nearly exploded with looking! There was a tape measure on the seat marked ‘Hornby Hobbies’, I wonder if Airfix will be doing a big Typhoon? Good luck with your project, the RAF were very thorough clearing up Tiffies, not much to find!

AR403 was a MkV Spit, the prop blades in the BBC photo look like DeHavilland metal blades from a Mk1. Checking CWGC Sgt Malcomb Robertson, named in the article is listed as buried Sec. E. Grave 219. GLASGOW (CRAIGTON) CEMETERY. Pure speculation but could the wrong aircraft have been excavated?

The pedals certainly aren’t, I think they’re off an Andover!

Very nice grip Steve, I hope you got a good deal! There was a Mk4 (?) grip on t’ebay a while back, supported by a scan from the pilot’s notes to prove it wasn’t Hunter which was my first thought. It had nice yellow hazard stipes on one of the covers went for quite a bit. My much more battered grip has AC14323 on the casting and AC14284 on the label, it’s supposed to be from scrapped gate guardian XA801 and looks like it spent a good few years under a leaky hood. you found a lovely cockpit pic there.

Thanks Dobbins, I should have added aromatic. It stank of fuel! Wyvernfan, it would have made an amazing display put back together. The ‘light’ distortion would be a challenge but with lots of space and an imaginative frame it would look superb, pretty much everything was there. I don’t think anything spectacular would be reburied, but every piece has some merit.