Date:	Sunday 2 June 1940
Time:
Type:	Gloster Gladiator Mk II
Owner/operator:	263 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF
Registration:	N5914
MSN:	-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Lille Haugefjellet, 12 miles East of Narvik, -   Norway
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Bardufoss Airfield, Troms og Finnmark county, Norway
Destination airport:	-

Narrative:
263 Sqn. Royal Air Force, Gladiator N5914, one of two on patrol from Bardufoss Airfield over Narvik/Bjørnfjell, Norway, was shot down east of Rombaksfjorden by Messerschmitt Me 110 flown by Leutnant, Helmut Lent of of I./ZG 76.
The aircraft crashed in the mountains at Lille Haugefjellet 12 miles East of Narvik, killing Pilot Officer, James Leon Wilkie.
The wreckage was recovered in 1998 for the reconstruction of N5914 at the Gloucestershire Aviation Collection Jet Age Museum, Staverton, Gloucestershire, UK.

Gladiator Narvik (tihlde.org)
Aircraft (jetagemuseum.org)
James Wilkie | TheyServed Wiki | Fandom
WILKIE James Leon 42170 - Highgate RSL (highgate-rsl.org.au)
James Leon Wilkie, died in Norway 2 June 1940 | Wings Over New Zealand (proboards.com)
The History Journal - Gladiator

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

21 April 1940	N5624	263 Sqn RAF	1	Scapa Flow, Scotland,		w/o
25 April 1940	N5628	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5632	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5725	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5698	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5639	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5589	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5641	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5705	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5579	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5632	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5634	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5915	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5720	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
25 April 1940	N5680	263 Sqn RAF	0	Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway		w/o
21 May 1940	N5697	263 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF	1	Seja Island, northern Norwegian coast.		w/o
21 May 1940	N5693	263 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF	0	Seja Island, northern Norwegian coast.		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Dec-2020 16:16	Peter Clarke	Added
08-Dec-2020 17:48	Lelek	Updated [Operator, Operator]