ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 19464
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| Date: | Sunday 7 March 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Taylorcraft Auster I |
| Owner/operator: | 655 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LB290 |
| MSN: | 161 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Steventon, 1 mile from East Hanney, Berkshire. -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Old Sarum, Wiltshire (EGLS) |
Delivered to 20 MU RAF Aston Down 28/8/42, before being issued to 653 Squadron on 6/9/42. Four days later, on the 10th. LB290 was damaged at Penshurst when aher a downwind landing it turned onto its back, causing its removal to Taylorcraft at Rearsby for repairs.
Several other minor incidents occurred before it was transferred to 654 Squadron on 20/11/42. Two months later, LB290 was ferried to 47 MU at Sealand, but released for 652 Squadron on 1/2/43, until 19/2/ 43 when it was re-allocated to 655 Squadron.
Finally on 7/ 3/ 43, it was being flown on an observation exercise in Berkshire at low level, when it collided with a telegraph pole and crashed near the village of Steventon, 1 mile from East Hanney, Berkshire. The pilot was killed.
Sources:
1. Mike Draper, Auster Quarterly, Vol 1 No 2 Summer 1975
2. http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=60
3. http://www.auster.ukf.net/p01.htm
4. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?7999-430307-Unaccounted-airwoman-and-airmen-7-3-1943
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 04-Feb-2013 19:19 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 08-Apr-2013 17:16 | Nepa | Updated [Operator] |
| 30-Apr-2014 00:00 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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