ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 229438
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Date: | Tuesday 23 June 1942 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIb |
Owner/operator: | 1 CACU RAF |
Registration: | P8531 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Camer Farm near Gravesend, Kent -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Stn Detling |
Destination airport: | RAF Stn Detling |
Narrative:Spitfire P8531 was being operated by No.1 Coast Artillery Co-operation Unit based at RAF Detling.
Not long into a navigation practice flight from Detling the plane stalled and spun into the ground on a farm near Gravesend. The pilot was killed.
He was David Malloch from Dunedin, New Zealand.
Pilot Officer David Lindsay Malloch ( 413101 ) RNZAF, age 21, is buried at Maidstone Cemetery, Kent.
R.I.P.
Sources:
Spitfire production list and other sources.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
28-Sep-2019 00:24 |
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02-Nov-2019 18:23 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
23-Apr-2021 23:12 |
angels one five |
Updated [Narrative] |
14-Aug-2021 21:06 |
angels one five |
Updated [Narrative] |
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