Corgi Dakota Lilly Bell II
Posted: 09 Nov 2010, 15:12
Some of you may have seen and even own the Die cast Model of USAAC DC-3 Lilly Bell II.
You may be interested to learn that a couple of weeks ago a memorial was erected to the crew of the Lilly Bell II that crashed a mile or so from where I live.
A friend of mine investigated the accident and an historical society ran a metal detector over the area and found some small pieces of aluminium from the a/c and these were put in the pot when the plaque was cast
The local newspaper report is here
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/community/ye ... y_revealed
and here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.robin ... eiling.pdf
The friend of mine tried to get USAF to do a flypast with a C-130 or something but they declined, as did the RAF but he was given the name of Andrew Davenport of Wings Venture who agreed to do a fly past on a DC-3 that was only two serial numbers on from the crashed a/c. The weather was perfect and I must say an excellent piece of navigating by the DC 3 crew to fly right over a small memorial located in a built up area
You may be interested to learn that a couple of weeks ago a memorial was erected to the crew of the Lilly Bell II that crashed a mile or so from where I live.
A friend of mine investigated the accident and an historical society ran a metal detector over the area and found some small pieces of aluminium from the a/c and these were put in the pot when the plaque was cast
The local newspaper report is here
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/community/ye ... y_revealed
and here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.robin ... eiling.pdf
The friend of mine tried to get USAF to do a flypast with a C-130 or something but they declined, as did the RAF but he was given the name of Andrew Davenport of Wings Venture who agreed to do a fly past on a DC-3 that was only two serial numbers on from the crashed a/c. The weather was perfect and I must say an excellent piece of navigating by the DC 3 crew to fly right over a small memorial located in a built up area