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I thought I already mentioned that. It was on the remains of the frame attached to the engine.

But Does anyone where to find the codes which are stamped in the metal?

The port outboard text indicates its a 4 engine aircraft. The Merlin XX was used in Lancasters and Halifax. based on the pictures someone with more knowledge as me assumed it was a lancaster. because they XX was used in Mk.I Lancs this was my conclusion. But I know assumption is the mother of...

We received a Rolls Royce XX engine that was found by a fisherman. We try to find out where it belongs to. it seems to be a Lancaster Mk.I engine. Sadly there were no id's on the engine anymore but there were two signs on the airframe can anyone help me out whit these. We hope to track the...

Thanks for the information perhaps a plane heading for the air show in België. Sanicole airshow 2021.Maybe Hudson Ventura or lodestar?

Which aircraft passed our village this afternoon. Is it a b25 Mitchell ?

Thanks for your reaction ThomasP, If airocobra's flew missions in this area then there is a link. In the area where the tank was found we find a lot of wreckage from the dunkirk area. The tide could have brought it to our region. Thanks for helping me out on this last question.

thanks for the ongoing research .. So if it is an P-39 that would be interesting because I thought these types or planes were not used in our Area. (Zeeland, Holland) I thought these were all sent to Russia and the Pacific. Why did this tank end up in de North Sea near the Scheldt? I found...

This is the landinggear after cleaning up. Based on the location and serial information found on the landinggear we are now pretty shure it belonged to No 158 squadron Wellington Mk.II W5482 NP-X. Their mission was a nickkeling raid on Lille. This was the first unsupervised mission of Pilot...

You can download ORB's and other information from the site of the National Archive in KEW. you only have to register and you can request up to 50 scanned documents without costs Discovery | The National Archives Not al information is available but it's enough to make a start. I have been in KEW...

Sorry for asking the wrong person. I give you all a quick update we have retrieved some information from the national archives (there is a free download period at the moment) in which we found some information. We discovered the pilot was buried in Amsterdam on the 8th of June 1942. (We are now...

Mitasol Some weeks ago you posted a drawing of the landinggear with a lot of number around it. I'm making a report of where we found partnumbers. It would help if I could use this drawing and give some explanation on the parts I discribe. Could you post or sent me the partnames that match these...

Thomas, Were do you find the information about these partnumbers and related airframes? We searched for days en only found a remark in a book about the 285 prefix

Thanks for this information. A friend of mine already found in the book Aircraft Wrecks that the number 285 in a partnumber reflects to Wellington. (Aircraft Wrecks). We were still seaching for other partnumber information found on the gear I had several other possible crashes in that area. If...

Yesterday we did some more cleaning and research. The gear was found before the coast of Oostende. There are a number of crashes reported over there. Perhaps we can narrow that down if we can get the precise location