Supermarine Swift F4 WK272
Details: Aircraft Type: Supermarine Swift F4 WK272 Date of Crash: 10th May 1955 Pilot: Squadron Leader P.D. Thorne. (Senior RAF test pilot) Airfield: Boscombe Down A&AEE Crash Location: Paddockhurst Estate, […]
Short Stirling BF479 E for Easy 149 Squadron
Short Stirling III BF479 OJ-E of 149 Squadron took off from RAF Lakenheath in England on the night of the 13th/14th March 1943. Its mission that night was to bomb […]
Spitfire XI PA929
Details: Aircraft: Spitfire XI PA929 Pilot: Michael Aidan McGilligan 16 Squadron (PRU) Lost: 8 June 1944 Location: Bletchingley, Surrey UK Background information: Spitfire PA929 from No. 16 Squadron, based at […]
Spitfire Vb EN864 USAAF
With thanks to all those who helped with the excavation and the MOD for their co-operation. We’d also like to thank to AFHRA/RSA Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell Air […]
Spitfire IX BS548
Details: Aircraft: Spitfire IX BS548 Pilot: Lieutenant Claude Raoul-Duval 341 ‘Alsace’ Squadron – Biggin Hill Lost: 17 April 1943 Location: Tancarville, France Spitfire IX BS548, 341 ‘Alsace’ Squadron, piloted by […]
Lockheed P-38 Lightning F-5C 42-67245
Details: Aircraft: P-38 F-5C 42-67245 Pilot: Lieutenant Ernest E Johnston 27th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group – 8th US Army Air Force Lost: 6 April 1944 […]
Junkers Ju-88A-14 Werk Nr. 140099
Hawker Hurricane Mk1 V6621 – 253 Squadron RAF Kenley
On 28th September 1940 Pilot Officer Richard Courtney Graves was in combat over the south of England flying Hawker Hurricane Mk1 V6621 from 253 Squadron based at RAF Kenley. He […]
Heinkel He177A-5
Heinkel He177A-54/KG40Ofw Werner Neuenfeld and crew (baled out)Crashed 13 June 1944Nr Bolbec, France On 12th June 1944 Ofw Werner Neuenfeld and crew took off from Toulouse to attack invasion shipping […]
Halifax II JN920 ‘LK-L’ 51 Squadron RAF – Excavation
22nd October 1943 – 51 Squadron RAF Snaith, Yorkshire Sgt. Hall (RCAF) and the rest of his crew climb aboard Halifax JN920 for the last time. Having just completed a […]