It really is a shame, in fact a disgrace, that history which is so relatively recent is regarded as ancient by today's 'society'.
Organisations will spend huge amounts of time and effort researching and locating truly ancient historic sites/ artefacts etc., yet things like this, where the subject matter was something involved in possibly mankind's greatest struggle against its own evils, can be ignored, shrugged off, treated as 'oh, that was ages ago, it doesn't matter now'.
The people of my generation, who's father's, uncles, etc fought in World War Two, are, to an extent, fortunate to have learned some little private snippets about the war, but have left it too late to really gain information (in most cases), as the generation that fought the war sadly pass away. It's the younger generations, who really owe their existance to these fading heroes, who should be making the effort to chronicle and record as many accounts as possible, before it's too late, now, whilst the 'cast of history' are still alive. This includes the location and preservation of what, to them, are just bits of remote scrap metal.
Sorry to 'invade' your thread Daniel, but I really do hope you can locate this aircraft, and possibly the pilot's remains. I'm too far away to help physically, and too 'poor' these days to contribute financially, but if I can help in any other way, just yell mate!