ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18899
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| Date: | Sunday 23 March 1941 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Lockheed Hudson Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 1 PDU RAF |
| Registration: | G-AGAR |
| MSN: | 1761 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Heraklion Airport, Crete -
 Greece
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Heraklion Airport, Heraklion, Greece (HER/LGIR) |
Ex-RAF N7364: Transferred to civil markings G-AGAR on 21.3.40 (C of R 8275/1; C of A 6825). Officially registered to 'Aeronautical Sales and & Research Corporation Ltd., London SW.1', with a "home port" of Heston Aerodrome, Middlesex.
On 22.3.41, Damaged by Fiat CR 42s in an air raid on Heraklion, Greece, destruction completed the next day. Engine and other parts salvaged and returned to Egypt. G-AGAR was also known as 'Cloudy Joe' and was involved in secret reconnaissance missions on Soviet oil fields at Baku, Azerbijan in 1940 by 1 PDU (Photographic Development Unit) under the command of Sidney Cotton. For this work, the upper gun turret was removed
Civil registration cancelled by the CAA belatedly on 22.11.45 as part of post-war census of the UK civil register
Heraklion airport first opened in March 1939. This was then merely a piece of flat agricultural land. The first aeroplane (a Junkers Ju 52) carried the first passengers to the site. During the Second World War, the airfield was the site of the Battle of Heraklion, during the Battle of Crete in 1941. Civilian operations ceased, but in the autumn of 1946 traffic resumed, introducing the DC-3 aircraft
Sources:
1. http://www.24sqnassociation.royalairforce.net/Downloads/24iss13.pdf
2. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t58110.html
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AGAR.pdf
4. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?120884-Hudsons-without-turrets&p=1956871#post1956871
5. https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/149167-lockheed-hudson-upper-turrets-wwii
6. https://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Arts/Art7711.htm
7. https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=1736840#p1736840
8. https://content.yudu.com/libraryHtml/A43s6j/Medals1112Dec19/58.html?page=58
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklion_International_Airport#History
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 24-May-2008 23:55 | JINX | Updated |
| 11-Apr-2010 10:50 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Apr-2010 10:51 | TB | Updated [[Aircraft type, Operator, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative]] |
| 25-May-2011 07:40 | WarNet | Updated [Date, Operator, Location, Country, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Dec-2012 09:17 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Aug-2016 14:09 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 16-Aug-2016 14:10 | TB | Updated [Departure airport] |
| 06-Nov-2017 18:07 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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