Date:	Monday 4 September 1944
Time:	13:25
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI
Owner/operator:	515 Sqn RAF
Registration:	PZ163
MSN:	3P-?
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Dutch part of the Dollard Bay, Groningen prv. -   Netherlands
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Little Snoring, Norfolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Mosquito PZ163: Takeoff at 11:50 hrs for a Ranger Patrol over Dutch. 04/09/1944
For reasons unknown, the aircraft was ditched into the Dollard bay.
Crew
P/O (179292) Hubert LOUDON (pilot) RAFVR – POW (NCO:1345232 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 29 August, 1944)
Sgt (999234) James TENNANT (nav.) RAFVR – POW

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txtt
2.ORB 515 Sqdn RAF
3.https://www.verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3972
4.The Long Road - Oliver Clutton-Brock.
4. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

27 April 1944	NS895	515 Sqn RAF	2	near Deelen airfield, Gelderland		w/o
1 May 1944	NS847	515 Sqn RAF	2	2 km northeast of Bazel, Kruibeke, East Flanders.		w/o
11 May 1944	NS932	515 Sqn RAF	2	Westelijke Kanaaldijk near Wemeldinge, Zeeland.		w/o
11 May 1944	NS929	515 Sqn RAF	2	Oosterschelde estuary off Kats, Zeeland		w/o
13 May 1944	DZ638	692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF	2	sea am Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog		w/o
6 June 1944	NS950	515 Sqn RAF	2	Bergse Maas near Dussen and Hank; Noord-Brabant.		w/o
28 August 1944	PZ161	515 Sqn RAF	2	between the Dalweg and Talmalaan roads at Soest, prov. of Utrecht.		w/o
16 September 1944	PZ184	515 Sqn RAF	2	5 km north of Achmer airfield, Bramsche, Niedersachsen.		w/o
18 September 1944	NS962	515 Sqn RAF	2	Plantlünne airfield, Niedersachsen		w/o
21 November 1944	PZ344	515 Sqn RAF	2	Walbeck, Geldern, Nordrhein-Westfalen		w/o
19 March 1945	NS957	515 Sqn RAF	2	near Ciney, 14 km east-north-east of Dinant, Namur.		w/o
Mid-air collision

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
02-Dec-2009 00:13	NePa	Updated
24-Nov-2011 14:33	Nepa	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Apr-2014 06:25	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport, Narrative]
02-Aug-2014 16:04	Komes123	Updated [Narrative]
10-Jun-2015 22:01	Xindel	Updated [Total fatalities]
24-Aug-2015 11:17	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Narrative]
18-Mar-2019 19:55	Nepa	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Operator]
26-Jul-2019 16:57	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
05-Aug-2019 19:50	Nepa	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, Operator]
31-Aug-2021 20:48	TB	Updated [Cn, Source, Narrative, Operator]
16-Sep-2021 17:54	Anon.	Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
01-Oct-2021 08:41	Nepa	Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Operator]
31-Jul-2022 08:31	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]