Date:	Wednesday 22 April 1942
Time:	day
Type:	Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I
Owner/operator:	264 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF
Registration:	N3366
MSN:	326
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	1 mile NW of RAF West Malling, Kent, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Test
Departure airport:	RAF West Malling, Maidstone, Kent
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Boulton Paul Defiant N3366. 264 Squadron: Written off (Damaged Beyond Repair) 22 April 1942 after wheels up forced landing one mile North West of RAF West Malling, Maidstone, Kent,when engine failed on test flight. Both crew survived, one was injured, one was uninjured. According to the file at the National Archives at Kew (File AIR 81/13599 - see link #2):

"Corporal P G Harrison: injured; Corporal P G Harrison: uninjured; Defiant N3366, 264 Squadron, aircraft accident, West Malling, Kent, 22 April 1942"

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain 1977 p20)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/13599: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17206236
3. 264 Squadron ORB for 1/5/1940 to 31/10/1943: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/1555: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2504197
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._264_Squadron_RAF#World_War_II
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_West_Malling#Second_World_War

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Feb-2008 00:24	JINX	Added
01-Feb-2013 14:43	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase]
24-Aug-2013 18:15	JINX	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Source]
01-Nov-2013 19:11	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative]
11-Nov-2014 13:10	Heart	Updated [Location, Narrative]
02-Jul-2022 09:21	Nepa	Updated [Location, Nature, Narrative, Operator]