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Date: | Tuesday 23 March 1943 |
Time: | |
Type: | Taylorcraft Auster AOP.III |
Owner/operator: | 652 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | MZ139 |
MSN: | 267 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1 mile S of Little Hormead, Hertfordshire -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire |
Destination airport: | local |
Narrative:Delivered to 652 Squadron on 04/03/43, but its life was short-lived. On 23/03/43, during a low-level Arty/R exercise, MZ139 flew into the ground about one mile south of Little Hormead, Hertfordshire, and was burnt out. The pilot was badly burnt.
Sources:
1. Mike Draper Auster Quarterly Vol 1 No 4 Winter/Spring 1976
2.
http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=150 'Where the Lysanders were ..... (the story of Sawbridgeworth's airfields)' Pub by Paul A Doyle 1995
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
20 March 1945 |
MZ131 |
AOP Trg Flt RAF |
0 |
Eboli ALG, Campania, Salerno |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-Apr-2014 22:26 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
28-Apr-2014 22:34 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
28-Apr-2014 22:35 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Country] |
09-Nov-2014 07:05 |
DG333 |
Updated [Operator] |
18-Feb-2015 16:11 |
paddy |
Updated [Total fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |