One of our aircraft...

[CDP]

...is no longer missing it would seem. The pilot's whereabouts is unclear though. Doubt there'll be much left of this P-40 though after the locals have stripped it for scrap....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/avia...he-Sahara.html

and picture gallery...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...?frame=2215708

Chris

[David Thompson]

Long running and very detailed thread about the P40 on Key Aviation Forums long before the British press picked it up , see here ;
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/sho...d.php?t=116221

[hunter]

The reason it might still be there is that there aren't any locals. It must be a better recovery prospect than David Cameron's buried Burmese Spitfires though

[David Thompson]

This is another one which cropped up on the Air Britain forum yesterday , a First World War bi-plane on the Greek island of Thasos , see here ;

http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13494...?action=print1

Its been quite a year so far for discovering 'wrecks' what with the Burmese Spitfires , the P40 , a He219 off the Denmark coast and now this !

[PETERTHEEATER]

Take your pick

It was documented at the time that there was a fault with its front landing gear which would not retract and the photographic evidence suggests the aircraft had its front wheel down when it crashed.

According to experts, a plane making a controlled crash landing in the desert wouldn't have its landing gear down and would belly-flop on the sand.