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Date: | Friday 6 October 1939 |
Time: | |
Type: | Supermarine Spitfire Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 19 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | K9854 |
MSN: | 71 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Newmarket Heath, Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:First Flown 26-1-39. Allocated to 66 Squadron 1-2-39. Transferred to RAE 30-3-39 for trials. To 19 Squadron at Duxford 4-5-39, coded 'QV-W'
Written off in a mid air collision with K9821: force-landed on Newmarket Heath 6-10-39. Pilot Flt Lt Wilfred Clouston RAF ( from New Zealand ) sustained minor injuries**. Aircraft declared damaged beyond economic repair. Struck Off Charge 14-10-39 and "reduced to produce" (scrapped)
(**Clouston went on to fight in the Battle of Britain, and his score reached 9 kills and 3 shared destroyed, one and one shared probably destroyed and one shared damaged. In 1941 he was posted to Singapore to command a fighter squadron, but was taken prisoner when the fortress fell and spent the rest of the war in captivity).
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 79)
2. Spitfire: A Photographic Biography By Dilip Sarkar
3. Spitfire Mark I/II Aces 1939–41 By Alfred Price
4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p001.html 5.
http://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/K9854 6.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showpost.php?p=162504&postcount=15 7.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?21225-UK-Collisions-Late-1939-Early-1940&styleid=3 Revision history:
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