Date:	Monday 22 May 1944
Time:
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIa
Owner/operator:	53 OTU RAF
Registration:	P7820
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Lea Road Gainsborough Lincolnshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire
Destination airport:	RAF Kirton-in-Lindsey

Narrative:
Spitfire P7820 was a presentation aircraft, " Parganas 1 ".
On the 22nd of May 1944 it collided in the air with Wellington bomber BJ819 of No. 82 OTU.
The Spitfire crashed onto the railway line at Lea Road, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, and its pilot was killed.
Declared Cat. E and Struck Off Charge. To No. 2 Metal Produce Recovery Depot, Eaglescliffe, Stockton- on-Tees, 29/5/44 for scrapping.
Pilot:
F/O (151811) John SMITH RAFVR - killed
R.I.P.

Spitfire production list. RAF Kirton in Lindsey 53 O.T.U. OPERATIONS Record Book and Bomber County Aviation Resource (bcar). The Wellinton crashed at Sturton which bcar says is in Notts, but this quite likely to be Sturton by Stow in Lincs, but unable to confirm this.
RAF Casualties-1944
cwgc

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
16-Jan-2014 08:27	angels one five	Added
16-Jan-2014 08:28	angels one five	Updated [Narrative]
10-Mar-2015 02:24	angels one five	Updated [Source, Narrative]
09-Jun-2015 06:33	Angel dick one	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
22-May-2020 08:39	Pat Horton	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
01-Feb-2021 07:12	angels one five	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]