Incident Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIV RM883,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49290
 
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Date:Monday 1 January 1945
Time:09:15
Type:Silhouette image of generic SPIT model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIV
Owner/operator:430 (City of Sudbury) Sqn RCAF
Registration: RM883
MSN: G9-
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:B.78 Eindhoven Airfield, Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase: Standing
Nature:Military
Departure airport:B.78 Eindhoven (NL)
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Destroyed during German air raid while parked ("Unternehmen Bodenplatte").
Pilot, J/4900 F/L Robert Frederick Gill (RCAF), suffered a head wound and a broken arm extricating himself from the aircraft while under fire.

Sources:

http://www.nimh.nl/nl/images/1945%20sec_tcm5-7286.pdf
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft PA100 - RZ999, published 1992
430 Sqn wartime diaries and records from RCAF historical microfilms
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=430+sqd&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=430+sqd&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
06-Nov-2009 11:05 NePa Updated
14-Apr-2013 11:01 Uli Elch Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Source, Narrative]
10-May-2013 19:42 Nepa Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
25-May-2015 19:04 DB Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport]
13-Nov-2019 19:27 TigerTimon Updated [Time]
21-Nov-2021 17:57 tachel Updated [Time, Cn, Total occupants, Source, Narrative]
17-Jun-2022 03:13 Ron Averes Updated [Location]

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