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Date: | Tuesday 21 May 1940 |
Time: | morning |
Type: | Gloster Gladiator Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 263 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N5697 |
MSN: | - |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Seja Island, northern Norwegian coast. -
Norway
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | HMS Furious |
Destination airport: | Bardufoss Airport, Troms og Finnmark, Norway. |
Narrative:263 Sqn. Royal Air Force, Gladiator N5697 was one of 18 aircraft flown from the aircraft carrier HMS Furious for shore based deployment at Bardufoss Airfield, 55 miles northeast of Narvik. The aircraft became separated from the flight in snow storms and fog on the coast and crashed in the mountains of Seja Island, on the Northern Norwegian coast, 25 miles north west of of its destination at Bardufoss, killing Pilot Officer, Walter Philip Richards.
Sections of the wreckage have been recovered for use in the reconstruction af Gladiator N5914 at the Gloucestershire Aviation Collection 1998/Jet Age Museum, Staverton, Gloucestershire, UK.
Sources:
Norway May 1940 (naval-history.net)
HMS Furious, British aircraft carrier, WW2 (naval-history.net)
No. 263 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia
A/C SERIAL NO (rafmuseum.org.uk)
Flight of Gladiator II N5697 and Pilot Officer W P Richards on 1940-05-21 (backtonormandy.org)
World War 2 - RAF No. 263 Squadron, May/June 1940 (epibreren.com)
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
21 April 1940 |
N5624 |
263 Sqn RAF |
1 |
Scapa Flow, Scotland, |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5628 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5632 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5725 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5698 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5639 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5589 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5641 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5705 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5579 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5632 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5634 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5915 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5720 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
25 April 1940 |
N5680 |
263 Sqn RAF |
0 |
Frozen lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Oppland in central southern Norway |
|
w/o |
2 June 1940 |
N5914 |
263 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF |
1 |
Lille Haugefjellet, 12 miles East of Narvik, |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Nov-2020 01:12 |
Peter Clarke |
Added |
30-Nov-2020 09:53 |
Newton |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |