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Date: | Monday 26 November 1934 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Fairey Gordon Mk 1 |
Owner/operator: | 40 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | K2700 |
MSN: | F.1772 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Little or no information is available |
Narrative:Fairey Gordon Mk.I K2700: Delivered to Home Aircraft Depot (HAD) 23 June 1932. To 2 Aircraft Servicing Unit (2 ASU) 18 January 1933. To 40 Squadron, RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire 6 November 1933
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 26 November 1934 when hit Hawker Fury K2053 of 43 Squadron on take-off at RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire and Damaged Beyond Repair.(Fury K2053 was Struck off Charge 28 March 1935 as "reduced to components, probably as a result of this incident).
40 Squadron reformed at RAF Upper Heyford on 1 April 1931, as a day bomber squadron equipped with Fairey Gordons, being the first squadron equipped with that type. It moved to RAF Abingdon in October 1932 and in November 1935, re-equipped with the Hawker Hart
Sources:
1. The K File The RAF of the 1930s (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1995 pp.171 & 198)
2. Halley, James J. (1980). The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-083-9. p.73
3. Moyes, Philip (1964). Bomber Squadrons of the R.A.F. and their Aircraft. London: Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. PP 60-61
4.
https://archive.org/stream/Airfix_Magazine_1970-03/Airfix_Magazine_1970-03_djvu.txt 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gordon#Service 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._40_Squadron_RAF#Reformation 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Abingdon#History Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Oct-2009 00:36 |
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19-Oct-2018 19:39 |
Nepa |
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