The largest remaining section from an example of the RAF's first four-engine heavy bomber, the Short Stirling, was moved into the RAF Museum London's Bomber Command Hall at Hendon during early March from storage at Stafford, and will become one of the most poignant exhibits in the revamped hall when it opens to the public during May. The rear fuselage, fin, rudder, and starboard tailplane from Stirling Ⅲ LK488 were recovered from Mickle Fell, in what is now County Durham, during August 1977, nearly 33 years after the bomber had crashed during a training mission from RAF Wratting Common on the night of 18 October 1944. The RAF Museum Midlands at Cosford is also developing a new permanent exhibition concentrating on the Bomber Command story. It too will open to the public in May. Vickers Wellington X MF628, currently under restoration in Cosford's Michael Beetham Conservation Centre, is scheduled to go on display in the exhibition later this year.
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