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Re: What and Were are they now?

Posted by Steve T on Thu Jan 16, 2003 03:21:31 PM

In reply top Re: What and Were are they now? posted by julian on Thu Jan 16, 2003 03:09:43 PM

Hi--

TF956 was recovered partly by the RAF Irvin Sub-Aqua Club and partly by a Royal Navy minesweeper. No spares were used from the wreck--nothing was likely useable anyway, little recognizeable was left. The ditching (off Prestwick) was indeed in 1989, following a hydraulic failure that left LCdr Beattie with one mainwheel locked up and the other down...

WG655, iirc, is now a project for Chuck Greenhill reg'd N20MD; has latterly been for sale with Mark Clark, but I do not recall its actual physical location (Sanders' shop would certainly be logical, though). How much of the project airframe is genuinely from WG655 is probably a valid question considering the mess she was after the 1990 crash.

S.

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