Date:	Sunday 26 May 1940
Time:
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
Owner/operator:	19 Sqn RAF
Registration:	L1031
MSN:	245
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Location:	RAF Newmarket, Suffolk, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Spitfire L1031: (c/no. 245) First Flown 23-6-39. Issued to the RAF 19 Squadron 29-6-39.Damaged on combat operations 26-5-40. According to the official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/594): "Pilot Officer M D Lyne: injured; Spitfire L1031 damaged in air operations, 27 May 1940". Forced landed at RAF Newmarket, Suffolk after being hit by return fire from a Heinkel 111

Repaired and returned to service with 222 Squadron 3-9-40. To 58 OTU 5-2-41. FACB 10-2-41. To Airwork Service Training and Converted to Spitfire Va (with Merlin 45 engine). To 57 OTU 28-7-41. Airwork Service Training Engineering 6-8-41. To 332 (Norwegian) Squadron as 'AH-S' 7-2-42. To 164 Squadron 22-4-42; struck Spitfire P7498 on ground Skaebrae 14-8-42. To 61 OTU 21-6-43. FACB 8-7-43. 1 CRU 15-7-43. Written off (damaged beyond repair) when u/c jammed and belly landed at Kidlington 10-1-45, Struck Off Charge 25-1-45

1. Air-Britain: Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1978 p 5)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/594: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502286
3. Air Battle for Dunkirk: 26 May - 3 June 1940 By Norman Franks
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p002.html
5. http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/603/Marius-Eriksen.aspx

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

10 January 1945

L1031

1 FPP ATA

0

RAF Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England

w/o

Spitfire L1031 when with 332 (Norwegian) Squadron, RAF at Catterick 21 April 1942

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Jul-2013 01:08	JINX	Added
01-Aug-2013 20:56	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location]
21-Aug-2013 21:42	JINX	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
02-Mar-2015 18:33	Lotos	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source]
29-Sep-2015 07:59	Anon.	Updated [Narrative]
18-Aug-2019 23:37	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative]
08-Feb-2021 22:49	angels one five	Updated [Narrative]