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Date: | Sunday 31 August 1941 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 256 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | N1770 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Rhyl Seafront, Rhyl, Denbighshire, North Wales -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Squires Gate, Blackpool, Lancashire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.I N1770/'JT-U', 256 Squadron, RAF Squires Gate, Blackpool, Lancashire. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 31 August 1941 when Force-landed on the seafront at Rhyl, Denbeighshire after the engine cut. According to the file at the National Archives at Kew (File AIR81/8734 - see link #3):
"Pilot Officer F T Reynolds: injured; aircraft accident at Rhyl, North Wales, Defiant N1770, 256 Squadron, 31 August 1941"
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000 to N9999, (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1993 p123)
2. Defiant, Blenheim and Havoc Aces By Andrew Thomas p.93
3. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/8734:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16924576 4. 256 Squadron ORB for January 1941 to September 1946: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR27/1524:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2504166 5.
https://www.raf-in-combat.com/downloads/september-2017-boulton-paul-defiant-night-fighter-17-photos/ 6.
https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/515607?term=Defiant 7.
http://www.255.org.uk/scoresheet.html 8.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_Wales_and_West_Midlands.pdf 9.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._256_Squadron_RAF#Second_World_War10. 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyl Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Feb-2017 14:24 |
ORD |
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03-Sep-2017 15:53 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Phase, Nature] |