ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 208370
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| Date: | Friday 30 August 1940 |
| Time: | 18:00 |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire I |
| Owner/operator: | 222 (Natal) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | K9826 |
| MSN: | 41 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Marley, near Barham, Kent, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Hornchurch, Essex |
Supermarine Spitfire K9826 (c/n 41 - 41st production Spitfire)
12/12/38: Delivered to 19 Squadron, RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire
01/06/39: Seriously damaged in a flying accident at RAF Duxford. Albert Phipps (aged 35) of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, was killed at RAF Brize Norton, Carterton, Oxfordshire, when the Tractor he was driving across the edge of the airfield was struck by Spitfire K9826.
Crew of Spitfire K9826:
P/O James Baird Coward (pilot) RAF- unhurt.
The aircraft was assessed as Cat C damaged, and repaired. P/O Coward did not suffer adversely either - he was promoted to Flying Officer just over two weeks later, on 16/06/39.
30/12/39: Transferred to 2 FTS, RAF Brize Norton
00/01/40: Transferred to 616 (South Yorkshire) Squadron, RAF
06/05/40: Transferred to 222 (Natal) Squadron, RAF Hornchurch, Essex, coded ZD-X (see link #7)
02/07/40: Damaged in combat with enemy aircraft (Messerschmidt Bf.109). Pilot - Pilot Officer Hilary Patrick Michael Edridge - bailed out, with slight injuries (burns) and aircraft came down at Barham, Kent. (P/O Eldridge was K.I.A. on 30/10/40 when he crash landed his "replacement" Spitfire I (K9939) after combat with a Bf 109 over Ewhurst at 12:15 hours.)
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 79)
2. Crash 01/06/39: http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p001.html
4. http://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/Edridge.htm
5. http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showpost.php?p=143369&postcount=7
6. http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/remembering-today-17-9-40-sergeant-e-j-egan-742787-royal-air-force-volunteer-reserve-501-sqdn.42018/
7. http://www.markstyling.com/spitfiresmkl_ll_5.htm
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Coward_%28RAF_officer%29
9. http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Coward_JB.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Mar-2018 17:01 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 28-Mar-2018 18:52 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 28-Mar-2018 19:00 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Mar-2018 19:01 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
| 06-Oct-2018 05:22 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 17-Jun-2023 16:01 | Nepa | Updated [[Operator, Operator]] |
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