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Re: A-20 Forward Fuselage in U.K.

Posted by John Parker on Tue Jan 28, 2003 07:26:02 PM

In reply top Re: A-20 Forward Fuselage in U.K. posted by Cees Broere on Tue Jan 28, 2003 08:51:00 AM

: Thanks Simon,
:
: And I thought I had such a good memory.
:
: Now, where are those photographs?
:
: Strange to know that the Aussies have a lot of leftover pa
: rts from their two restoration projects. That would speed
: up the project enormously. Does the RAFM know? The Boston/
: Havoc hole in their collection still needs filling.
:
: Cees

Cees

There are indeed many Boston/Havoc/A20 parts held at (or at least they were until recently)as a result of years of collecting by the RAAF in PNG as part of their project to restore two airframes (one for PNG and one for the RAAF Museum)and a great job was done and was completed. I think it was in Classic Wings or one of the other mags that an offer was made that interested parties should contact the RAAF museum about the availability of these spare parts. I have no relationship with any of this - meerly as an observer and I think that if this surplus stuff exists then it would be great if it was made available to others to access. As an aside it is interesting to note that most of the recovered machines all crashed on the same day in PNG as the result of a violent storm when the best part of two whole US squadrons were on a mission and could not land so they crash landed on the very high Kuni grass with fairly light damage- perhaps they should plant Kuni grass in Seattle so various Boeing Prop airliners and Me 262 jets could use it!!!

Regards
John Parker

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