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127FEEDBACKThe Municipal Liaison Scheme.In the Editor%u2019s article on the Municipal Liaison Scheme in Journal 29he listed the known participating affiliations and suggested that therewere no survivors of the scheme. In point of fact, there was onesignificant omission from the list and, oddly enough, that particular linkis still active. No 201 Sqn was affiliated to Guernsey in 1939, gifts beingexchanged between the squadron and the island to mark the occasion. Inreturn, the States of Guernsey commissioned two large silver cups, onefor the officers, the other for the WOs, SNCOs and airmen.Unfortunately, the Germans arrived before these trophies could bepresented so they were buried for %u2018safe keeping%u2019 and formally handedover after the war.When the squadron was disbanded, with the demise of the Sunderlandin 1956, the affiliation, which had flourished until then, lapsed until1970. At that time I was the CO of 201 and the squadron re-established,what have developed into, very strong links with the island and itspeople. For instance, the squadron%u2019s original standard is laid up in thechurch at St Peter Port; the unit received the Freedom of The States in1994; and the new No 201 Sqn Museum in Castle Cornet was opened byHM The Queen on 12 July 2001. The Kinloss-based unit is plainly veryproud to be No 201 (Guernsey%u2019s Own) Sqn, this association beingreinforced every year during Wings Week when the standard, escorted bya detachment with fixed bayonets, is paraded through St Peter Port.AVM George ChesworthForresTheft of an Aeroplane from No 15 EFTS.Members will recall that on page 191 of our last publication(Reserves and Auxiliaries) I enquired whether anyone could corroboratethe tale of German PoWs stealing one of HM%u2019s aeroplanes in an attemptto make good an escape. I am indebted to Sqn Ldr Leonard Dickson whodrew my attention to the fact that, coincidentally(?), within a fortnightsomeone had submitted a very similar question to the Daily Mail. Thenewspaper%u2019s researchers were able both to confirm that the incident didtake place and provide a little more detail. Even more detail wasprovided by Roy Nesbit who had described this exploit in considerable