ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 89216
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Date: | Saturday 11 May 1940 |
Time: | |
Type: | Gloster Gladiator Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 1/I/2 Aéronautique Militaire Belge |
Registration: | G-18 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Beauvechain AFB, Walloon Brabant -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Beauvechain (B) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:In the early afternoon between 14:07 and 14:32 Messerschmitts from I./JG 1 destroyed seven Belgian Gladiators and three Belgian Hurricanes on the ground at Beauvechain
At least Glosters G.31, G.32 and G.38 was damaged. Totally 11 Gladiators were destroyed or damaged but there were no pilot casualties. All aircraft were write-offs or abandoned on withdrawal to Belsele that night.
Sources:
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/gladiator_belgium.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Jan-2011 14:57 |
ThW |
Added |
03-Feb-2011 14:19 |
ThW |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator] |
28-Jun-2022 23:38 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Registration, Narrative] |
28-Jun-2022 23:48 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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