Brian 48nav
Nice to be remembered Brian!.
Lou Scannon here aka Bob Osborne. I am indeed the chap who accidently found himself to be "The Curator" of the Museum. It all started when I was told to arrange the display of four aircraft that had been left over from Colerne's days as an MU for the annual BofB open day in
July 1964 when I was a Co-pilot on 36 Hastings Squadron. I quickly realised that many historic aircraft were simply being scrapped and decided to do something about it. By way of an example one of them was Spitfire P7350 which had been flown in after the war to be broken up along with hundreds of other Spits and War Time aircraft. It was a scrap metal dealer who pointed out that this had flown during the BofB and should it not be preserved? Against to wishes of the RAF they hid it away at the back of a hangar where it lay with an ME163, Heinkel 162 and Meteor 4.
It was an interesting time if anyone would like to hear some of the stories and who took over from me.
Bob Osborne