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[Kazegami]

For now, I found this information:
AIRPLANE H87A-3
PART? NO. 87-69-714R
CAL. 50, CAP.155 RDS
R.H. GUN BOX NO 2

[Texx]

If this is really a 260 sqdn machine it is really odd to be the HS-B aircraft.

I know that many times there where aircrafts wearing the same tactical markings and codes but look at this:

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/321/language/en-CA/Flying-with-the-Ace.aspx

[Phas3e]

Its not odd at all, as soon as one aircraft with a specific letter is lost its added to the replacement, if they didnt do that they would soon run out of letters

[Barkhorn]

About the holes on the top of it, show on those pictures:




Can it have benn possible caused by battle damage?

[Wildchild]

A now common belif at WIX is that this aircraft had to make an emergency ferry flight when there airbase was being over-run by germans, at night, and on takeoff the landing gear jammed. Low on fuel, he had no choce but to make a forced landing, and not seeing rocks, snaps the gear (found 300 ft away) and tears away the prop

 

[Barkhorn]

A now common belif at WIX is that this aircraft had to make an emergency ferry flight when there airbase was being over-run by germans, at night, and on takeoff the landing gear jammed. Low on fuel, he had no choce but to make a forced landing, and not seeing rocks, snaps the gear (found 300 ft away) and tears away the prop

 

I think not damage on ground, but maybe shrapnell from a flak or something...

[Wildchild]

A now common belif at WIX is that this aircraft had to make an emergency ferry flight when there airbase was being over-run by germans, at night, and on takeoff the landing gear jammed. Low on fuel, he had no choce but to make a forced landing, and not seeing rocks, snaps the gear (found 300 ft away) and tears away the prop

 

I think not damage on ground, but maybe shrapnell from a flak or something...

What you see is engine parts that went through the cockpit and out the top of the plane

[Barkhorn]

A now common belif at WIX is that this aircraft had to make an emergency ferry flight when there airbase was being over-run by germans, at night, and on takeoff the landing gear jammed. Low on fuel, he had no choce but to make a forced landing, and not seeing rocks, snaps the gear (found 300 ft away) and tears away the prop

 

I think not damage on ground, but maybe shrapnell from a flak or something...

What you see is engine parts that went through the cockpit and out the top of the plane

Maybe... but now i read the other posts, someone posted sometyhiong about it have being ferried to an RSU due to damage, so i believe it could be an damage froma previous flight, and the reason it was going to RSU... makes sense to me

[LuseKofte]

Well, it is not official any storyes in here that is deemed correct, these kind of abandoned planes have a tendency to grow a myth. If someone start a research on this, they will find the reason of the flight, if not tha cause

[w]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142300/Crashed-plane-Second-World-War-pilot-Dennis-Copping-discovered-Sahara-desert.html

[Moggy Cattermole]

Was just about to mention this. It must surely be the same one people were talking about in an earlier thread.

The RAF Museum, Hendon, intends to recover it. Believed to be that of Ft Sgt Coppings.

[Kazegami]

It must surely be the same one people were talking about in an earlier thread.

It is.
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,25024.0.html