Incident North American P-51 Mustang Mk II FD558,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49460
 
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Date:Monday 1 January 1945
Time:10:00
Type:Silhouette image of generic P51 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
North American P-51 Mustang Mk II
Owner/operator:268 Sqn RAF
Registration: FD558
MSN: -H
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Unknown
Location:B.77 Gilze-Rijen Airfield, Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase: Taxi
Nature:Military
Departure airport:B.77 Gilze-Rijen (NL)
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Took off at 08:32 hrs for a tactical recce operation.

The aircraft was attacked and damaged during taxiing after landing, due to the major Luftwaffe air offensive against the Allied airfields on 1/1/1945, Operation Bodenplatte.

Pilot - F/Lt. J.B. Lyke

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4893&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Radio letter from log books via C. Ford

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
07-Mar-2009 23:36 angels one five Updated
18-Feb-2010 10:27 NePa Updated [Time, Operator]
12-Aug-2014 15:52 Lotos Updated [Location, Departure airport]
13-Nov-2019 10:35 TigerTimon Updated [Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source]
04-Nov-2021 12:15 TigerTimon Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source, Damage, Narrative]
15-Jun-2022 11:06 Ron Averes Updated [Location]

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