There's been some progress made in lifting a Second World War Halifax Bomber off the sea-floor of the Swedish coast in the process of getting it back to Nanton for restoration.

Bomber Command Museum Director, Karl Kjarsgaard, fresh back from Sweden, says that progress is painfully slow though.

"They've begun the process and you know we started that initial dive, but we hardly got any diving done because of the high winds and the big waves, so they're going out again this weekend."

Kjarsgaard says he hopes his Swedish dive team can have the airframe and other parts dug out from the ocean floor and into a hangar by summer's end.

He says they have about 40 cubic metres of sand that needs to be removed from in and around the airframe, as the plane has settled into the ocean bottom over the 73 years it's been in the water.

He says they'll then work on getting them back to Canada.

He says enough donations have come in to get everything back to Nanton, but they're coming up short on cash to actually start the restoration.

Kjarsgaard's confident that money will be raised over time, but he takes issue with both Heritage Canada and the Department of Veterans Affairs for what he calls their "indifference" to helping them repatriate and restore a big piece of Canadian aviation history.