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Date: | Tuesday 7 September 1943 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Boulton Paul Defiant TT Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 1622 (AAC) Flt RAF |
Registration: | DR989 |
MSN: | 1019 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Detling, Detling, 4 miles NE of Maidstone, Kent, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Detling, Maidstone, Kent |
Destination airport: | RAF Gosport, Hampshire |
Narrative:Boulton Paul Defiant TT. Mk.I DR989, 1622 (AAC) Flight RAF: Written off (destroyed) 7 September 1943 when crashed on takeoff from RAF Detling, Detling, 4 miles North East of Maidstone, Kent
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Brtiain, 1987)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/880/20:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162020 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Detling Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
09-Feb-2008 23:15 |
JINX |
Added |
28-Oct-2014 15:55 |
Paix |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source] |