Date:	Tuesday 13 December 1938
Time:	day
Type:	Fairey Battle Mk I
Owner/operator:	207 Sqn RAF
Registration:	K7585
MSN:	F.2343
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Cottesmore, Oakham, Rutland, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Cottesmore, Oakham, Rutland
Destination airport:	RAF Cottesmore, Co. Rutland
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Fairey Battle K7585: Written off (destroyed) 13/12/38 when undershot on approach and hit tree, RAF Cottesmore, Oakham, Rutland. Pilot - Pilot Officer Philip Charles Rolls (aged 21) - was killed. Aircraft relegated to GIA (Ground Instructional Airframe) 1787M on 6/2/1939. Total time on airframe 188.25 hours.

1. The K File - The RAF of the 1930s (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1995 p.125)
2. The Battle File (Sidney Shail, Air Britain, 1997 p.125)
3. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 62)
4. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?314-RAF-officer-deaths-1-1-29-3-9-39
6. http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=12578
7. http://www.207squadron.rafinfo.org.uk/rollofhonour/mb_not_cwgc.htm
8. Flight magazine 5/1/39 page 12 at https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1939/1939%20-%200022.PDF

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-Mar-2018 01:37	Dr. John Smith	Added
22-Mar-2018 02:19	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
01-Nov-2018 08:40	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
29-Oct-2020 23:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
09-Jul-2023 21:47	Nepa	Updated [[Cn, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]]