Date:	Tuesday 2 April 1940
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Hurricane Mk 1
Owner/operator:	504 (County of Nottingham) Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1951
MSN:	TM-L
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Location:	near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Wattisham, Suffolk
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hawker Hurricane L1951/L: Substantially damaged in a field near Great Yarmouth, 2 April 1940. Its pilot, Flying Officer David Phillips, made a successful belly-landing after sustaining damage in a combat with Heinkel He 115s over the North Sea, despite being wounded in combat

Aircraft later repaired and returned to service; later served with 601 and 229 Squadrons, 56 OTU, 5 FTS and 9 FTS. Written off in a flying accident at Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire 11 February 1942

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 14)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/111: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14141946
3. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205191267

Hawker Hurricane Mark I, L1951 TM-L, of No 504 Squadron Detachment at Wattisham, at rest in a field near Great Yarmouth, 2 April 1940. ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: FIGHTER COMMAND © IWM (HU 69945)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
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