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Date: | Friday 11 September 1942 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIa |
Owner/operator: | 52 OTU RAF |
Registration: | P7676 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | River Severn, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Aston Down, Gloucestershire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Spitfire P7676: Written off (damaged beyond repair) 11-9-42 when crashed into the River Severn, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire while low flying. 11/09/1942
Crew:
Sgt (R/88238) Kenneth Maxwell GRANT (pilot) RCAF Killed.
Buried Cirencester Cemetery, Plot 6. N.C. Row C. Grave 16. Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sources:
1. Halley, J J, 1996, Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000 to R9999, page 69
2.
http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/515563/details/supermarine-spitfire-iia-p7676 3.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p004.html 4.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2451101/grant,-kenneth-maxwell/ 5.
http://www.aviation-links.co.uk/Gloucestershire%20Aircraft%20Accidents.pdf 6.
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2451101 7.
http://aircrewremembered.com/AircrewDeaths39-47/?q=1942-09-11 8.ORB 52 OTU RAF
9.Spitfire production list
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