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Date: | Monday 11 January 1937 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Boulton-Paul P.75 Overstrand |
Owner/operator: | 101 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | K4564 |
MSN: | P.75/19 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Swanbourne, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bicester, Oxfordshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Boulton Paul Overstrand K4564, 101 Squadron, RAF Bicester, Oxfordshire: last of a batch of 19 aircraft ordered from the Aircraft Department of Boulton and Paul Ltd, Mousehold, Norwich, Norfolk, to contract 337825/34. Delivered between October 1935 and July 1936.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 11/1/37 when flew into the ground in fog at Swanbourne, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire. Both crew killed:
Pilot Officer Robert Arthur McLester Watson (aged 22 and an Australian national)
AC1 Lawrence Rice (aged 18)
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain 1976 page 34)
2.
http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1937.htm 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_%26_Paul_Overstrand#Accidents_and_incidents 4.
http://www.britishaviation-ptp.com/b/boulton_paul_strands.html 5.
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?314-RAF-officer-deaths-1-1-29-3-9-39/page5&styleid=3 6. The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) Tuesday 11 January 1938 Page 10 Family Notices (In Memoriam page) at
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/36402826 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Mar-2018 18:18 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
03-Mar-2018 18:24 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Source, Narrative] |
07-Apr-2018 23:59 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Source] |
09-Oct-2018 05:20 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |