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Date: | Sunday 26 May 1940 |
Time: | |
Type: | Supermarine Spitfire Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 19 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | L1031 |
MSN: | 245 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | RAF Newmarket, Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Spitfire L1031: (c/no. 245) First Flown 23-6-39. Issued to the RAF 19 Squadron 29-6-39.Damaged on combat operations 26-5-40. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/594): "Pilot Officer M D Lyne: injured; Spitfire L1031 damaged in air operations, 27 May 1940". Forced landed at RAF Newmarket, Suffolk after being hit by return fire from a Heinkel 111
Repaired and returned to service with 222 Squadron 3-9-40. To 58 OTU 5-2-41. FACB 10-2-41. To Airwork Service Training and Converted to Spitfire Va (with Merlin 45 engine). To 57 OTU 28-7-41. Airwork Service Training Engineering 6-8-41. To 332 (Norwegian) Squadron as 'AH-S' 7-2-42. To 164 Squadron 22-4-42; struck Spitfire P7498 on ground Skaebrae 14-8-42. To 61 OTU 21-6-43. FACB 8-7-43. 1 CRU 15-7-43. Written off (damaged beyond repair) when u/c jammed and belly landed at Kidlington 10-1-45, Struck Off Charge 25-1-45
Sources:
1. Air-Britain: Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 5)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/594:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502286 3. Air Battle for Dunkirk: 26 May - 3 June 1940 By Norman Franks
4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p002.html 5.
http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/603/Marius-Eriksen.aspx
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Media:
Spitfire L1031 when with 332 (Norwegian) Squadron, RAF at Catterick 21 April 1942
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Jul-2013 01:08 |
JINX |
Added |
01-Aug-2013 20:56 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location] |
21-Aug-2013 21:42 |
JINX |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
02-Mar-2015 18:33 |
Lotos |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source] |
29-Sep-2015 07:59 |
Anon. |
Updated [Narrative] |
18-Aug-2019 23:37 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
08-Feb-2021 22:49 |
angels one five |
Updated [Narrative] |