Marty - you should move these posts out of extraneous and into the Maid of Harlech Forum Section.
Steve - There hasn't been much official news on this project, but there is a bunch of work going on in the background. TIGHAR members have actually been monitoring the site periodically and the Maid has not revealed herself since we were there in October of 2007.
Part of the process is to present a detailed plan to the local authorities who have jurisdiction over the site, and even that is complex as the site is essentially on the line between two different ecological preserves, one seaward and the other landward. With the aircraft in the intertidal zone, the recovery will also be a very complex process. In addition, we have to have a reasonably well developed plan for what is going to happen to the aircraft, and how it will be conserved. Going to take special expertise, and lots of money. Hopefully, we'll be able to move forward again soon, but resources have been pulled in many directions, including the Devastator and Earhart Projects.
Andrew McKenna