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Date: | Friday 9 February 1945 |
Time: | 15:43 |
Type: | Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC |
Owner/operator: | 1695 BTT Flt RAF |
Registration: | LF535 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Elmire Hill Farm near RAF Dalton, North Yorkshire, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | RAF Dalton |
Narrative:Hurricane LF535: Took off for Test flight. 09/02/1945
Turned into the final approach and lost power at 300 feet. Spun in at Elmire Hill Farm on the airfield's SE Side.
Crew:
F/Lt (J/15785) Arthur Benson SUMMERS (Pilot) RCAF : killed
Sources:
Bomber Command Losses by W R CHORLEY, volume 8, page 218.
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