Re: P38 Lightning Plynlimon -- The Landing Ground

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Subject: Re: P38 Lightning Plynlimon

Author:
kelvin davies

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Date Posted: 15:18:02 12/27/04 Mon
In reply to: Mark Walters 's message, "Re: P38 Lightning Plynlimon" on 11:27:31 09/10/04 Fri

Hi Mark,

Please will you email me offline about this subject I have some info but you may be aware of it anyway.

thanks

kelvin

>>Does anyone know who recently removed the supercharger
>>from this aircraft?
>We have been monitoring the removal of wreckage on
>this site for the last 5 years or so and this appears
>to have been taken during the winter of 2003/04. The
>landowner did not give permission for this removal and
>the people who removed it clearly knew:
>
>a) precisely where the wreckage was
>b) how to get to the wreckage from the adjacent
>landownership without being seen
>b) that the supercharger was relatively intact
>c) they knew how to remove the supercharger and had
>tools
>d) there were at least two of them as the parts are
>heavy to move
>
>It is appalling that someone has removed this part in
>this manner and the landowners were very angry to find
>this had happened as they keep in touch with relatives
>of the pilot that was killed in the crash. The pilots
>relatives wish the wreckage to remain where it is as a
>memorial and were equally upset at the news.
>
>The wreckage was either removed by an aviation group,
>or collectors for their private collection, or for
>re-sale.
>
>If anyone has knowledge of the whereabouts of this
>item please report it here.
>
>Mark Walters
>Regional Archaeological Curator

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Re: P38 Lightning Plynlimon	Mark Walters	09:52:36 05/29/05 Sun