ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 150804
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| Date: | Tuesday 10 October 1939 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: | Hawker Audax |
| Owner/operator: | 12 SFTS RAF |
| Registration: | K7489 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF Spittalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Spittalgate, Lincolnshire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Hawker Audax Mk.I K7489, 12 FTS, RAF Spitalgate: Written off (destroyed) 10/10/39 when the Audax stalled and dived into the ground shortly after taking off on a night flying exercise from RAF Spittalgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire. The pilot - Pilot Officer Raymond Edward Stanford Brown RAF (aged 19) - was killed in a flying accident. Raymond Brown is buried at Grantham Cemetery.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain. 1976 page 61)
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939a.htm
3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2417338/brown,-raymond-edward-stanford/
4. http://www.bcar.org.uk/1939-incident-logs
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Nov-2012 23:43 | angels one five | Added |
| 14-Jul-2013 03:41 | JINX | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 23-Apr-2018 17:44 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 19-Oct-2018 14:04 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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