Date:	Friday 6 October 1939
Time:
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
Owner/operator:	19 Sqn RAF
Registration:	K9854
MSN:	71
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Newmarket Heath, Suffolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
First Flown 26-1-39. Allocated to 66 Squadron 1-2-39. Transferred to RAE 30-3-39 for trials. To 19 Squadron at Duxford 4-5-39, coded 'QV-W'

Written off in a mid air collision with K9821: force-landed on Newmarket Heath 6-10-39. Pilot Flt Lt Wilfred Clouston RAF ( from New Zealand ) sustained minor injuries**. Aircraft declared damaged beyond economic repair. Struck Off Charge 14-10-39 and "reduced to produce" (scrapped)

(**Clouston went on to fight in the Battle of Britain, and his score reached 9 kills and 3 shared destroyed, one and one shared probably destroyed and one shared damaged. In 1941 he was posted to Singapore to command a fighter squadron, but was taken prisoner when the fortress fell and spent the rest of the war in captivity).

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 79)
2. Spitfire: A Photographic Biography By Dilip Sarkar
3. Spitfire Mark I/II Aces 1939–41 By Alfred Price
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p001.html
5. http://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/K9854
6. http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showpost.php?p=162504&postcount=15
7. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?21225-UK-Collisions-Late-1939-Early-1940&styleid=3

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Jan-2011 19:43	angels one five	Added
17-Nov-2011 03:31	angels one five	Updated [Narrative]
25-Dec-2011 05:56	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator]
25-Dec-2011 05:56	Nepa	Updated [Nature]
10-Jan-2012 16:16	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location]
13-Jan-2012 09:26	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Phase, Nature]
22-Jan-2012 19:45	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]
07-May-2012 11:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
30-May-2012 00:32	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
04-Nov-2012 17:05	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative]
22-Oct-2013 14:59	JINX	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Narrative]
18-Dec-2013 18:12	Nepa	Updated [Operator]
29-Jan-2014 23:42	angels one five	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative]
08-Jun-2015 18:10	Angel dick one	Updated [Operator, Departure airport]
01-May-2018 14:58	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
06-Feb-2021 21:40	angels one five	Updated [Narrative]