Model aircraft tribute for Wick airport

This scale model of a WW2 era Whitley bomber was recently constructed by ex-military man James More and given to Wick John o' Groats Airport where it will eventually be displayed to the public.

James, a Wick local, made the model as a tribute to all RAF crew who lost their lives in Caithness during the war and especially the pilots killed when their Whitley Mk VII from 502 Squadron, based at the airport, crashed into Scaraben East in May 1941.

He has been researching many of the crash sites in Caithness and hopes to see memorial cairns erected in memory of the Whitley crew and those from a Canberra jet bomber which also crashed in the same area 25 years later in 1966.

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