A small victory for Nanton's Bomber Command Museum and their efforts to rebuild a World War II Canadian Halifax Bomber, as they've located a very hard to come by part in England.

Museum Director Karl Kjaarsgaard is on his way there to retrieve it now.

"There was a farmer in Yorkshire, in the district where the Canadians flew from, has dug up an engine with the propeller still on the front. So my first little expedition to England will be to go up there, and we are going to disassemble the propeller and bring it to Nanton."

Kjarsgaard says if time and circumstance allow, he'll also head to Sweden to check on progress there.

He says they've run into problems retrieving an airframe they've been trying to get out of the ocean near the Swedish coast as a summer of bad weather has kept them from bringing it up this year.