Twenty-eight years after it was recovered from a crash site in northern Russia, restoration of the fuselage of Handley Page Hampden TBI P1344 is moving into the home stretch at the RAF Museum's Michael Beetham Conservation Centre (MBCC) at Cosford, and is expected to go on show at Hendon next year. The wings are now scheduled to be put in store for the time being. The No 144 Squadron, Coastal Command torpedo bomber was lost during September 1942 while on a ferry flight to the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia where it was to be used on Arctic convoy protection work. In transit over Finland, P1344 was flown too close to a Luftwaffe fighter airfield and was shot down by two Messerschmitt Bf 109s. It crashed in a wooded area of the peninsula, three crew members being killed and two taken prisoner.
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机译：从俄罗斯北部的碰撞现场恢复后二十八年，恢复围裙TBI P1344的机身，正在加入Cosford的RAF博物馆迈瑟米·贝瑟姆保护中心（MBCC）的家庭舒展。明年在亨德举行展示。翅膀现在被计划暂时存放。 No 144 Squadron，沿海指挥鱼雷轰炸机在1942年9月迷失了，而在距离俄罗斯北部的Kola半岛的渡轮航班上，它将用于北极车队保护工作。在芬兰的过境中，P1344飞到了莱特瓦夫战斗机飞行器，由两个Messerschmitt BF 109s击中。它坠毁在半岛的树木繁茂的地区，三名船员被杀，两名被囚犯。
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