Date:	Wednesday 29 July 1942
Time:	day
Type:	Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I
Owner/operator:	10 AGS RAF
Registration:	N1612
MSN:	137
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Walney Island, Barrow in Furness, Cumberland, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Walney Island, Barrow in Furness, Cumberland
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Boulton Paul Defiant N1612, 10 AGS (Air Gunnery School) RAF Walney Island, Barrow in Furness, Cumberland. Written off (destroyed) 29 July 1942 when stalled, rolled and crashed on take-off from RAF Walney Island, Barrow in Furness, Cumberland, with prop in course pitch. Both crew killed
Crew of Defiant N1612:
Sgt James Franklin Elliot (Aus.404331) pilot RAAF - killed
LAC Sydney Cooper (1092496) WOp/AG RAFVR - killed

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft N1000-N9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1977 p 9)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/16776: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17478979
3. CWGC: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17478979
4. CWGC: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2407830/sydney-cooper/
5. https://www.barrowbc.gov.uk/pdf/11b%20Polish%20Forces%20graves.pdf
6. https://furnessstoriesbehindthestones.co.uk/stories/polish-airmen-struniewski-trzebiatowski-krol-and-ciurkot/
7. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_in_Northern_England.pdf
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow/Walney_Island_Airport#No._10_Air_Gunnery_School

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
02-Feb-2008 14:11	JINX	Added
22-Apr-2015 16:15	Heil	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, ]
29-May-2024 21:40	Nepa	Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator, ]