Unfortunately it looks like the recovery of Flight Sergeant Williams is going to be a near enough impossible task due to locating the precise crash site and the physical work involved with excavating the site with it being so close to the river and the potential discovery of hazardous building material and waste which would need disposing of. I know money shouldn’t come into the equation when it comes to recovering our fallen hero’s but surely the money could be better (didn’t want to say better, but couldn’t think of something more suitable.) spent in recovering the remains of service people that are more accessible.

No doubt they will be buried under the main runway just out of reach at Izmir International Airport…….

Fantastic looking restoration! When is the “first” flight planned?

Do the werk numbers apply to the whole aircraft or different components? It’s just on the picture of the hydraulic pump the werk number is different to what is stated above, on the pump it looks like 215920079 and above is 130126. It might just be me being a thicko!! :confused:

My Grandfather was on the raid and has said before that he saw an aircraft going down on fire which he believed was the master bomber, there is nothing noted in his logbook about it but he said he filed a report when they got back to Waddington. At the time he obviously wouldn’t of known who was flying the aircraft. Here’s the page from his logbook.

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Thanks for the answers chaps, at coming up to 32 the chances of seeing Just Jane flying could be quiet strong! :eagerness: Reading the winter servicing reports I would of thought they cant be to far off having an airworthy Lancaster, you never know in 5/6 years time we might be all drooling over the possibility of having a Lancaster 3 ship flying over Great Britain……. 😎

Attachment bolts for this cover to be in place during compass swing?

Ahem…..

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