Here I found a photo of the entry of a Spit. This hatch looks like similar with the part we found ! (see photo #4)
Photo by http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2001/12/stuff_eng_detail_spitfire_ix_04.htm

Sadly we have no chance to search on the crash site again, because a lot of rainy days makes the field under water…

Bruce

You could be right on the number. I had automatically looked for the “300” prefix.

However, here is a definite piece of Spitfire (a Mk V) that I just found in the garage.

Certainly a similarity in the numbering pattern:

That´s great ! This part number is similar to the part number we have.
A Spitfire should be the a/c we found and the notice of the armed Spitfires with .50 guns could confirm this thought, correct ?

About the remains of the instrument, my first thought was this could be from a oxygen gauge, because the remains is fixed with his lower side on the panel and there a no connection to find :rolleyes:

Regards
Nils

it´s a british aircraft crash site…
we are not sure if this was a Mosquito, because a eyewithness told about two crew member.
Is is possible that this aircraft was shoot down in the last days of the war and the pilot was lynched after bail out by a german soldier (shot in his head).

Thanks for the interesting informations !

@Chumpy
can you send the complete list of codes you have show in your posting ?
I have a lot of Wellington parts with part numbers from some crash sites. It would be great to can identify the locations on the Wellington !

@Mark
thanks for the link ! I will try to contact the museum,maybe they can help with more informations of this data plate.

Best regards from Kiel, Germany
Nils

Hi Cees,

we are still waiting for the ok from disposal bomb team (they recovered the engines). On some engines they found 30lbs. bombs, so they must check the Merlins before we can clean it…

We have no aeral museum here. The next way is to document all the parts and the Merlin engine. I think we will held one of the Merlins and the other parts. My office must check what we do, because it must be a official way.

Regards
Nils

Hi Cees,

yes, that´s from the site I have found two years ago the human remain.

It´s a difficult theme, because the authorities in other states handle it different. He in the state “Schleswig-Holstein” the archaeological evidence ( here I´m the specialist for the aviation archaeology) is the only authority who recovered and search for wracks or parts of wracks. No other civil person or organisation have a permission to do that.In the next month we have a new law. People who dig or search for relicts of the WWII and would be to catch, are then previously convicted. This is then a statutory offense…

The bomb disposal team recovered three engines and they told me, the engines looks very well 🙂 Sadly we have during the recover no permission to visit this work, because they found a lot of bombs with different weight.

I´m waiting of a call from bomb disposal team to optain a overview about the condition of the engines…

If I have photos, I publish a report on my website and blog and will let you know then.

Same important is to receive a manual / part catalog for the Merlin XX engine for the dokumentation. I hope someone can help with this manual in digital form, before I must pay a lot of money for this…

Regards
Nils

Now I´m sure it´s a navigation map, you guys are right !
I have here a old german map of the UK and Ireland and just looking about the “O” (on the middle of the peace and the meridian), so it could be O° or 10°. Or it´s the sign for degree (°)… ?

Regards
Nils