Date:	Saturday 6 August 1938
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hector Mk I
Owner/operator:	13 Sqn RAF
Registration:	K9759
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Location:	North Sea, off Blackhall Rocks, County Durham -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Odiham, Hampshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Hawker Hector Mk.I K9759: Lost 6 August 1938 on a Military navigation flight. Reportedly crashed into the North Sea off Blackhall Rocks, County Durham. The pilot was posted as "missing believed killed": Pilot Officer Douglas St Quentin Robinson, aged 21, of No. 13 Sqn RAF, RAF Odiham. According to a contemporary report in Flight Magazine (August 19, 1938 p.153 - see link #5):

"With reference to the disappearance on August 6 of an aircraft of No. 13 (A.C.) Squadron, Odiham, Hants, extensive air and ground searches have failed to find the aircraft and its occupant, and it must now be accepted that P/O . Douglas St. Quentin Robinson lost his life on that date"

NOTE: Some sources (see link #6) give the crash location as being "North Sea off South Shields" - South Shields is 21 miles further north of Blackhall Rocks.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 78)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missing_aircraft
3. Mystery of Two RAF 'Planes". Irish Times. Dublin. 1938-08-10. p. 7.
4. The Missing Dublin Airman: Air Ministry Abandon Hope". Irish Times. Dublin. 1938-08-11. p. 7.
5. Flight Magazine August 19, 1938 page 153 at https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1938/1938%20-%202345.html
6. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm
7. http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/05023.php

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Feb-2017 18:35	Dr.John Smith	Added
06-Feb-2017 18:36	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
23-Dec-2017 18:04	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
13-Nov-2018 06:59	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]