Date:	Sunday 21 July 1940
Time:	c.
Type:	Hawker Hart
Owner/operator:	1 FTS RAF
Registration:	?????
MSN:	-
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	over RAF Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Netheravon, Fittleton, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Destination airport:	RAF Netheravon, Wiltshire

Narrative:
While on a solo training flight over RAF Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, the No.1 Flight Training School Hawker Hart, was shot down in flames by a Messerschmitt Bf 110. The wounded Pilot, Leading Airman, John Arthur Seed (Royal Navy), baled out but was killed when his parachute failed to open.

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Flying Personnel 1939 - 1947 (aircrewremembered.com)
To Scale the Skies: The Story of Group Captain J.C. 'Johnny' Wells DFC and BAR - Peter Cornwell - Google Books Page 84
Fall of France, July 1940 (naval-history.net)
No. 1 Flying Training School RAF - Wikipedia

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

17 August 1940	K5799	7 SFTS RAF	2	Deeping St Nicholas, 5 miles SW of Spalding, Lincolnshire, England		w/o
30 September 1940	K5038	1 FTS RAF	1	near Bulford, Wiltshire, England		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Jan-2021 14:27	Peter Clarke	Added
14-Jan-2021 20:28	Castle	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator]