Surplus and wanted items

Nothing from aircraft crash sites is sold on this page. BAAC groups will not sell material from digs or recoveries, but may offer surplus items for exchange with museums or bona fide groups and individuals. Aircraft parts that have not come from crash sites are sometimes sold to raise funds.

Items currently available...

• Airspeed Oxford Mk V static aircraft restoration project (Midland Aircraft Recovery Group) - see below.
  
• Hawker Hurricane fuselage woodwork jigs and patterns (M.A.R.G.)
• DH Hornet/ Sea Hornet cockpit canopy (M.A.R.G.)
• New laser cut WW2 blind flying panels (M.A.R.G.)
• Typhoon firewall, cockpit frame joints, control column, rudder pedals, throttle box, blind flying panel etc - will swap for similar Hurricane items (M.A.R.G.)
• Meteor nose wheel tyres 23x7.25-10 (M.A.R.G.)
• Hawker Hotspur wheels & tyres AHO 8041/1 (M.A.R.G.)
• Cockpit switch panel from B-29 44-61999 "Over Exposed" of 16 PR Squadron. This was a wartime aircraft, which flew with the 509th Composite Group - the atom bomb group in the Pacific. It was converted to a photo recce version after the war. It crashed in the Peak District on 3/11/48 and was recovered many years ago. (M.A.R.G.)
• A pair of panels from Heyford K6875, which crashed at Edale - recovered many years ago (M.A.R.G.)

Items currently wanted...

• P-51 Mustang items - anything considered (Aviation Research Group)
• Gannet front canopy (Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum)
• Rotol, de Havilland and Hamilton Standard propellers hubs - any condition (Historic Aircraft Recovery Team)
• Gloster Meteor F8 & T7 parts; AGS spares, half inch BA csk bolts (H.A.R.T.)
• Vickers Wellington - crew seats, control column yoke and equipment (Midland Aircraft Recovery Group)
• AW Whitley - seats, control column yoke, cockpit/ turret parts and equipment (M.A.R.G.)
• Mk IX bomb sight (M.A.R.G.)
• Cheetah & 80hp Le Rhone parts (M.A.R.G.)
• Hurricane firewall, fuselage frame joints & cockpit parts (M.A.R.G.)
• Any flying boat related items, particularly Sunderland (Pembroke Dock Sunderland Trust)
• AW Albemarle - photographs, plans & components, particularly control columns, seats, throttle box, instrument panels, photos and drawings (Pennine Aircraft Recovery Team)
• Horsa or Hadrian glider parts for restoration project (Wartime A/c Recovery Group)

Airspeed Oxford Mk V project for sale -  email: baac3@couplandbell.com.

This aircraft, EB518, was built by Airspeed in 1942 and shipped to Canada, for the Commonwealth Air Training Plan.  It flew with 35 Service Flying Training School, at RAF North Battleford, from August 1943 and was used to train numerous Bomber Command pilots - this was a British (RAF) unit, not Royal Canadian Air Force.  The Mk V was the ultimate development of the Oxford, with Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp engines.  The Oxford was the RAF's standard multi-engine pilot trainer of WW2.  It featured similar controls to the twin engine bombers and was deliberately difficult to fly, to give realistic training.  The remains of two Oxfords were salvaged from the Canadian Prairies by the Midland Waplane Museum and shipped to the UK in 1996.  A Mk I will be retained and rebuilt, while the Mk V is available for £3,500 (the cost of the shipping).  M.A.R.G. is interested in serious offers and may part-exchange or consider restoration work in lieu.  Interested parties are asked to use the above email address promptly - this project needs to be cleared to make space for the restoration of the Mk I.

The project includes most of the metal parts for the aircraft, including the cockpit parts.  Some parts are missing, but relatively few and this is believed to be the best basis for an Oxford rebuild available in Europe - and probably anywhere else.  The centre section is intact, but the wing spars probably need replacement.  New woodwork is required throughout.  Drawings can be supplied with the project and the woodworking tends to be straightforward, as it was designed for sub-contract to cabinet makers.  The entire fuselage, wings and tail are a birch ply and spruce or Douglas fir semi-monocoque structure.  Engines, propellers, instruments and perspex are not included. Further help and co-operation with the rebuild can be provided, from the Mk I restoration programme.

Centre section including engine nacelles - 17 ft span	Back of centre section	Starboard engine nacelle	Port engine nacelle
Pilot's seat	Pilot's seat (from LHS)	Instructor's seat	Instructor's seat (from LHS)
Control column yoke	Second control column yoke
		Control columns	Further control columns included for spares
Pilot's instrument panel with original plates	Main electrical panel with original plates	Throttle box/ control console & rudder pedals	(From RHS)
Cockpit canopy frame (foreground only)	Engine cowlings (Townend rings)	Main undercarriage doors (second pair similar)	Tail wheel leg
		Main wheel and tyre (second similar)
Undercarriage	Second undercarriage
Also included (not shown):
New blind flying panel & RHS panel (unpainted, without instruments)	Rudder hinges	Patterns for ailerons & flaps	Extensive wing nacelle panels
Panels for bottom of cockpit floor	Nose front panel (needs straightening)	Drawings as required	Numerous smaller items - the parts store for the Mk I rebuild includes many components, so anything spare which is needed for the Mk V will be provided as part of the package.