ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 15976
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| Date: | Thursday 5 September 1940 |
| Time: | 10:00 |
| Type: |  Hawker Hurricane Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 310 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | P8809 |
| MSN: | NN-T |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Location: | River Thames, off Essex Coast, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire |
Hurricane P8809/T: Written off (Damaged beyond repair) by Bf 109 in combat. Pilot Sgt Kaucy survived, with leg injuries
Crew:
Sgt (787582) Jan KAUCKÝ (pilot) RAFVR - OK
Jan Kaucky He was released from the RAF in 1946 as a Flight Lieutenant. He returned to Czechoslovakia and became a pilot with Czech Airlines. After the communist takeover in 1948 ex-RAF airmen came under suspicion and in 1950 Kaucky escaped to England with his family and two other Czech airline pilots, Rechka and Prchal (both Battle veterans) and their families. Kaucky died in Britain on 23rd August 1970, aged 63
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft P1000-P9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain. 1979)
2. http://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Kaucky.htm
ORB 310 Sqdn RAF
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 18 September 1940 | P8809 | 310 Sqn RAF | 0 | RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England. | |
min |
| 1 November 1940 | P8809 | 310 Sqn RAF | 0 | RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, England | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Mar-2008 06:52 | Nepa | Added |
| 18-Mar-2008 11:55 | harro | Updated |
| 28-Dec-2011 14:09 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Feb-2015 19:34 | Jixon | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 26-May-2019 22:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Location, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 20-Jul-2019 13:43 | Nepa | Updated [Location, Phase, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative, Operator] |
| 11-Jun-2022 18:34 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Location, Narrative, Operator] |
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