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Historic Aircraft Recovery and Preservation => War / Service Related Aircraft topics => Topic started by: James G. Stoveken on June 02, 2014, 06:10:11 AM

Title: Lost World War II plane found after 72 years
Post by: James G. Stoveken on June 02, 2014, 06:10:11 AM

WWII mystery solved (http://www.examiner.com/article/world-war-ii-plane-crash-airmen-families-get-closure-to-72-year-old-mystery)

Title: Re: Lost World War II plane found after 72 years
Post by: Chris Johnson on June 02, 2014, 08:13:54 AM

BBC News Item (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27662280)

Title: Re: Lost World War II plane found after 72 years
Post by: Jeff Victor Hayden on June 02, 2014, 06:59:45 PM

First date: 25 June 1941 - Taken on strength at Aircraft Repair, Edmonton, Alberta

to Western Air Command on 5 November 1941, for use at No. 32 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC. Went missing while on a routine navigation exercise near Vancouver Island, British Columbia: believed crashed into Patricia Bay on 30 October 1942. Still not recovered when struck off.

last date: 1 December 1942 - Struck off charge as "missing"

The wreckage was found near Lake Cowichan in January 2014.

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=144917 (http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=144917)