The 60 Maintenance Unit record book (air29/2039) lists all the aeroplanes that they were tasked with making servicable. For this aircraft it states that it was ready during the month of March 1952 and they repaired it at Topcliffe. At the time Hastings TG568 was on charge with the Transport Command Development Unit and based at Topcliffe. It presumably had a damage assessment made against it at some stage in 1951 but when this was is not known. How it came to require a repair is not yet clear and this may not have been down to any flying related incident.