Date:	Saturday 9 November 1946
Time:	day
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk IX
Owner/operator:	92 (East India) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PT790
MSN:	CBAF.
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud, district of Wolfsberg, Carinthia -   Austria
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Klagenfurt, Austria
Destination airport:	RAF Zweltweg, Styria, Austria

Narrative:
PT790: Spitfire LF. IX. Built at CBAF (Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory) with Merlin M66 engine. To 9MU RAF Cosford, Shropshire 31-8-44. to 82MU RAF Lichfield, Staffordshire 9-9-44 for packing and crating for overseas shipment. Shipped on the 'LS.1225' 24-9-44, arriving Casablanca 2-10-44. To 92 Squadron by 31-12-44. At Zeltweg, Austria after 8-5-45. Later to RAF Klagenfurt in 1946 as part of the BAFO (British Armed Forces of Occupation).

Written off (destroyed) 9-11-46 when struck trees and crashed on a hillside whilst attempting to climb out of a valley in cloud. This Spitfire was the No.2 in a pair, and lost sight of the leading aircraft as they made a 180-degree turn out of cloud, while flying up a valley. The pilot of Spitfire PT790 attempted to climb out of the valley, but while doing so, the aircraft struck trees near Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud, district of Wolfsberg, Carinthia, Austria, and disintegrated, killing the pilot.

Pilot:
F/O (57550) Stanley Anthony Mills, RAF (pilot, aged 21) - killed on active service 9-11-46. Klagenfurt War Cemetery, Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee Stadt, Carinthia, Austria. R.I.P.

Stanley Anthony Mills: Born in Bucklow, Cheshire, England in 1925 to Frederick Dennis Mills and Gordon Jamieson Frost. Stanley Anthony Mills passed away on 9-11-46 in Austria.

Following the cessation of hostilities, No. 92 Squadron was disbanded at Zeltweg in Austria on 30-12-46.

Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud is a town in the district of Wolfsberg in the Austrian state of Carinthia.

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2. Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1985)
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5. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2805564/stanley-antony-mills/
6. https://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=PT790
7. https://www.avialogs.com/spitfire-and-seafire-registry/item/87440-pt790
8. https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/MT790
9. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56433016/stanley-antony-mills
10. https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/stanley-anthony-mills-24-1sl0jdv
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._92_Squadron_RAF#Cold_War
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantschach-Sankt_Gertraud

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