Warbird Information Exchange

Steve N, thank you very much for bringing the Typhoon parts to the attention of the warbird community. I am very pleased to say that the Typhoon Legacy team (restoring Hawker Typhoon JP843 in British Columbia), was able to arrange for acquisition of the Typhoon parts very soon after your original post. All of our amazing team members from around the world worked diligently to make this happen, and I can now say the parts are safely in our possession. We will do our best to keep all interested parties up to date regarding these parts, and the project as a whole, through this forum. Our sincerest thanks to all involved!

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Ian Slater
Typhoon Legacy Co. Ltd

This is indeed great news! I hope that you and the RB396 project in the UK can both benefit from this discovery..my only concern through all of this was getting the word out about these priceless artifacts, so they can get proper treatment. No disrespect meant to the folks at the Kruse museum..I'm thrilled that they saved the parts at all, considering they're mainly a ground vehicle museum.


Steve N

It is very lucky that these parts survived, we've seen many examples recently where wreckage has simply been scrapped. The folks at the DVK Foundation were wonderful to deal with and very pleased to see that these parts will be put to good use. We would highly recommend visiting the DVK museum, it is unbelievable how many rare displays they have, it's well worth a trip!