This is still the only site with GPS verified, precise and accurate grid references for all of the peak district crash sites where any wreckage remains. We also have many in Wales, Yorkshire, and Bowland.
We are still active, and are in the process of updating the site, which has been rather inactive for a few years due to work commitments.
Another outing last week took me and Ian DB to the memorial to Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk.V BD230 in Muggington, known as "the Lonely Memorial" due to its out of the way location.
Location: SK 29516 43973
More Info: Derbyshire War Memorials
I have had a few outings recently with Mat ZX and Ian DB. The Harvard site on Shining Tor continues to evolve. Now it has two crosses, and a scatter of new, larger bits of debris. Holes and small piles of similar debris locally suggest that these were discarded by metal detectorists. When I first went here were just minutiae in a small peat scar.
Location: SJ 99748 73741.
We are still in business, and still the best site for UK air crash site coordinates, grid references and locations
An outing to Great Rhos with Matt ZX yesterday yielded two crash sites, of which this was the less impressive.
There are only scattered scraps to be found at the crash site, though larger fragments of skinning have been found scattered across the moor downwind of the site.
Location: SO 18497 63139
Further Info:https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/186510 or "Final Descent" by Terence R Hill
Second crash site of the day yesterday had this engine, a rarity in Wales nowadays with all of the looting. The location given below is for the engine. There's an impact site further up the hill with a scatter of bits and bobs as well.
Location: SO17569 64613
More Info: https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/248513 or "Final Descent" by Terence R Hill, if you can find a copy (it also has a nice picture of a very youthful Matt Rimmer, scourge of the magpies)
Went out in the snow with Matt ZX a little while back to show him a few sites on Kinder Scout he hadn't been to. The engine from Avro Anson Mk. XI NL185 appears to be missing. When I went out with Pat and MT Skull a while back, we didn't find it, but I had thought that was because we were a little rushed. Me and Matt however had a good hard look, and there is no sign of it. Someone went to some trouble here. But why?
I had a stroll up Carnedd Daffydd last weekend, to have a look for the missing Cessna engine block amongst other things.
No luck with the Cessna, but came across this bit a long way from any sites I have been to before. Despite the report from a dog walker that he had seen the engine block at a new site, I'm wondering if that Cessna engine block is decorating some magpie's garage. We had a good look all round where it used to be, and on the obvious lines someone might have rolled /dragged it down.
Anyway, the bit pictured looks like a bit of armour plate shaped to fit the back of a seat, (head end down in the pic) with some skinning attached. Nothing else around it, and I haven't seen it reported elsewhere.
Location: SH 66939 62844
Went out with Mat ZX on Friday for three sites he hadn't been to before on the back end of Bleaklow, including LX518.
There are so many well worn tracks all over the hills nowadays. Both this site and the Consul are pretty much right on well-eroded routes now. They were quite hard to find when we located them. It's hard to miss them now!
I was however surprised to come across this burn site a short distance from the more extensive remains in a grough I'd previously marked as the site.
Location: SK18023 96710
I had a query about the kmz file I created for all of the Peak District wreck sites, which used to be available from a link for a previous post. I have found a version of the file-if you want it, try this link, or email me at peakwreckhunter@googlemail.com. I can however see some of the locations shown in this file are incorrect, so I think it's actually one I got from the now-defunct Aztrecks site. I'll produce an updated version after I next meet up with Pat (who I gave a copy of my version to)
