Originally acquired in August 2010 this particular airframe has been a long-term resident in our workshop where it has painstakingly been rebuilt. Missing parts have been acquired from around the world to bring this mainstay of the Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Air Forces back to an acceptable display standard.
Throughout its service career the aircraft has carried various military identities and it has been repainted in the markings of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), which it wore when flying as FE930 at Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada in the 1940s.
This colour scheme was selected as a tribute to the hundreds of RCAF personnel who trained with 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU) at wartime RAF Winthorpe (where the museum is now located).
During the coming weeks some additional rebuilding work with be completed on FE630 before it is repositioned in its final display location close to one of the former RAF Winthorpe taxiways, which currently serves as a free museum car parking area.
Photo credit: P McEntee
