Can anyone please give me a detailed history of a) how the Wellignton ended up in Loch ness, and b) what the circumstances were that allowed it to be pulled out? How did the recovery all come together? Who did it? What was involved, etc?

I have searched the web and found very scant info that does not answer any of my questions.

I’d like to clarify three things.

In that very old post I somehow mispelled the man’s name, it was Ganley, not Gabley. my apologies, not sure how that happened, he’s a great hero of mine.

Secondly the word ridiculously censored as you point out was Coast Watchers.

And my name is Homewood, not Homeward…….

Let’s not forget Airline with Roy Marsden – C-47’s or DC-3’s in that.

Solent in ‘Raiders Of the Lost Ark’ and C-47, Zeppelin and more in its sequels

I think the commentator at OW said the last ones in service flew with a UAS Squadron in the 1930s but my Ozzie mate was nattering at the time and I didn’t get the full story (Sorry Feather No 3). Oh and BTW Dave you can’t just drop in the comment about the armed DH60 without a bit more comment. What was the story?

I assume by UAS you mean the university squadrons? They must have been the last RAF ones. According to the sources I have the RNZAF ones were the last in service anywhere in the world.

As for the Moth, it was kitted up with a gun and carried bombs, plus floats, and in 1930 it embarked onboard a ship for Samoa where there was a Mau uprising. It became the first New Zealand-owned military aircraft to go into combat, when a boat was spotted and was suspected of being Mau separatists. Pilot Sidney Wallingford persued it, and dropped bombs to try to destroy the boat. Luckily for him they all missed, as it turned out the boat was actually crewed by a local missionary and not terrorists! But it’s credited as NZ’s first aerial combat mission (if you forget the hundreds of New Zealanders who flew with the RFC, RAAF, RNAS, RIAF and other services in WWI)

Again if you are interested in stock footage, and not aviation related but may be of interest… a couple of years ago several very large buildings in downtown Wellington (NZ’s capital city) were moved around to make room for the Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa).

This was all captured on camera over several months so there have been some fantastic stop-motion sequences edited together showing buildings shifting. I believe TVNZ has the footage.

Just a suggestion for the future.

Good to hear mate.

See here for that thread. I did my best to put my view across. Feel free to add to it.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7443&highlight=battle+britain