Relic Avro Lancaster, Part Flap Section, 1944

Large Relic piece of Flap section from Avro Lancaster ND739.

This aircraft crashed near Carentan in Normandy.

Date of crash 6th June 1944

Call sign ND739

Parent unit 97 Squadron RAF

They had taken off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire at 2.56pm on D Day and carried out a bombing mission at Pointe du Hoc on the coast of Normandy, but their plane came under fire from Luftwaffe pilot Oberleutnant Helmut Eberspacher, shortly after 5am as he shot down three Lancasters in five minutes . The German aircraft was a Focke-Wulf. Their remains have never been found .

The aircraft was located and excavated 68 years after the incident in a field near Carentan, Normandy 2012. Some of the original paint is still well visible.

Pilot  Wing Commander Edward James (jimmy) Carter DFC, Service no 70770

Size of piece 63 inches x 25 inches

Relic Avro Lancaster, Part Flap Section, 1944

The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirling, all three aircraft being four-engined heavy bombers adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the same wartime era