Dakota arrives at RAF Metheringham

**Woolgar** · 12-02-2015, 02:06 PM

Last week RAF Metheringham in Lincolnshire received a new addition to its visitors centre.

I was privileged to be able to crawl all over even though the museum is closed until the Spring!! The wings and tail plane were not even fixed on I was that quick

RAF Metheringham was a WW2 Lancaster airfield however during D-Day Dakota's landed there with wounded as Nocton Hall military hospital was close by.

Nick

**Glenn66** · 12-02-2015, 03:58 PM

Looks like you were enjoying yourself Nick!

**big ned** · 12-02-2015, 04:26 PM

Here's some info and recent news about the aircraft, some of it rather worrying if it's true.....

Dakota for Metheringham?

**Salzburg** · 12-02-2015, 05:02 PM

Good stuff. Not much left of the Control Tower now. I remember photographing it a number of years ago when it was largely intact.

**Gunny Hartmann** · 12-02-2015, 05:16 PM

Great photos!...

**Woolgar** · 12-02-2015, 06:49 PM

by big ned

Here's some info and recent news about the aircraft, some of it rather worrying if it's true.....

Dakota for Metheringham?

There was certainly some nasty damage under the fuselage from the transportation !

**big ned** · 12-02-2015, 07:56 PM

by Woolgar

There was certainly some nasty damage under the fuselage from the transportation !

Quite. It may now be a right off as far as their previously expressed desire to return it to flight or even the lesser goal of taxying condition. And no hangarage available on an unsecured site besides the apparent lack of direction shown by the trustees of the aircraft so far doesn't bode well for the future of this historic airframe. Not a good start all around really is it??