Date:	Sunday 1 October 1939
Time:	17:45
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
Owner/operator:	603 (City of Edinburgh) Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1059
MSN:	274
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Location:	RAF Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, Scotland -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Grangemouth, Stirlingshire
Destination airport:	RAF Grangemouth

Narrative:
Spitfire Mk I L1059 ("XT-N") of 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron, RAF; Substantially damaged 1/10/39 when landed on top of Spitfire L1047, on the runway at RAF Grangemouth, Stirlingshire. The pilot of L1059 survived the accident, but the pilot of L1047 ("XT-M", also of 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron) was killed. Spitfire L1047 was a write-off.

L1059 was sent off to AST Hamble for rebuild. It was then issued direct to 266 Squadron on 04/06/40 and did not return to 603 Squadron. It then had an Cat 2 accident 09/08/40 struck building landing at Wittering when being piloted by Sgt (563253) Arthur William Eade (pilot) RAF: OK

Sent to 1 Civilian Repair Unit (Colwey) for repair and then to 58 OTU on 29/1/41. Destroyed 14/2/41 when crashed at Hillhead Farm, Slammanan, killing the pilot, Sergeant John Tristram Silvester, aged 22. in September 2013, the wreckage of Spitfire L1059 was excavated; the largest surviving piece was the propeller (see links #3 & #4 and the twitter post below)

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-N9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain)
2. Richard Hillary: The Authorised Biography of a Second World War Fighter By David Ross
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p002.html
4. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?126844-Spitfire-L1059-Dig-Last-Weekend
5. https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/world-war-ii-spitfire-unearthed-in-slamannan-field-1-3178868
6. http://www.aircrashsites-scotland.co.uk/spitfire_slamannan.htm
7. http://www.gairney.plus.com/Aircraft/58_OTU_Roll_of_Honour.htm

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


9 August 1940	L1059	266 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF	0	RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire, England		sub
14 February 1941	L1059	58 OTU RAF	1	near farm buildings at Hillhead, Slamannan, Stirlingshire, Scotland		w/o

Joined Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum http://t.co/LJTArw1VCp to dig up a WW2 Mk1A Spitfire L1059 in West Lothian pic.twitter.com/KiCVO2Ux8U

— Leigh Morris (@MorrisLeigh) September 28, 2013

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