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Date: | Thursday 18 April 1946 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Boulton Paul Defiant TT Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 773 Sqn FAA RN |
Registration: | DS121 |
MSN: | 1022 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kindley Field AFB -
Bermuda
|
Phase: | Taxi |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Kindley Field AFB, Bermuda |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Boulton Paul Defiant TT. Mk.I DS121, 773 Squadron FAA RN: Written off (Damaged Beyond Repair) 18 April 1946 when undercarriage collapsed during taxi at Kindley Field AFB, Bermuda.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britian, 1987 p.68)
2. Sturtivant, R; Ballance, T (1994). The Squadrons of The Fleet Air Arm. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-223-8.
3. Partridge and Singfield, Ewan and Tom (2014). Wings Over Bermuda: 100 Years of Aviation in the West Atlantic. Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda, Ireland Island, Sandys Parish, Bermuda: National Museum of Bermuda Press. ISBN 9781927750322.
4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/773_Naval_Air_Squadron 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindley_Air_Force_Base#World_War_II Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
09-Feb-2008 23:27 |
JINX |
Added |
21-Jan-2012 05:13 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
25-Apr-2015 07:25 |
Yety |
Updated [Aircraft type, Source] |