The BPA Defiant has now been moved to its new home at the RAF Museum in Cosford.
As Copping's story becomes known, British authorities are hoping to bring his plane back to the United Kingdom and put it on display at the RAF Museum in London.
This will remain, alongside the RAF Air Defence Museum, which was established on the air base 14 years ago.
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This would remain, alongside the RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, which was established on the air base 14 years ago.
Campaign group Bomber Heritage Command (BCH) hopes to establish a museum and education centre at RAF Bicester.
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The proposed farm will comprise 160, 000 solar panels and cover 200 acres of a former RAF site, now owned by The Science Museum at Wroughton.
Miss Ashton has written to the Treasury, asking it to "help preserve the memory of Battle of Britain pilots by funding, directly or indirectly, a museum at the former site of RAF Command at Bentley Priory".
The Bomber Command Heritage charity had wanted to take over the entire site as a museum to remember the role played by RAF bomber crews during World War II.
On the 70th anniversary of the decisive clash - in which the RAF repelled a German bid for air supremacy - Harrow Council permitted the museum.
After circulating around a number of RAF bases, it was eventually transferred to London's Imperial War Museum in 1946, where it has been suspended from the ceiling ever since.
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The former RAF pilot has works on show in the Tate, the National Galleries of Scotland, Leeds Museum and in Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington.
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