ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 183608
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| Date: | Wednesday 5 January 1949 |
| Time: | afternoon |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk IXe |
| Owner/operator: | Flyvevåbnet (Royal Danish Air Force) |
| Registration: | 41-438 |
| MSN: | CBAF. |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Mammen, near Bjerringbro, Viborg Municipality, -
 Denmark
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Karup AB, Mid-Jutland, Demark (KRP/EKKA) |
| Karup AB, Mid-Jutland, Demark (KRP/EKKA) |
TB584: Spitfire HF. IX, built at CBAF (Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory) with Merlin M70 engine. To 33MU RAF Lyneham 10-2-45. To 183 Squadron 24-6-45 at Wunsdorf, near Hanover, BZG, West Germany as "HF-P". To 122 Squadron, RAF Dalcross, Inverness, Scotland 16-8-45 as "MT-W". 122 squadron disbanded at RAF Dalcross on 1-4-46 when it was renumbered No. 41 Squadron.
Presumed stored until Struck off RAF charge when sold to Flyvevåbnet (RDAF - Royal Danish Air Force) as '41-438' on 4-11-48
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 5-1-49 when crashed at Mammen, near Bjerringbro, Viborg Municipality, 5-1-49. According to a rough translation from Danish into English of published sources (see link #2 for the original Danish text):
"5 January 1949: Spitfire H.F. Mk IXe (TB584) ran out of fuel and had to make an emergency landing. Due to a sharp angle on landing, the wing hit the ground and the aircraft turned around and was torn into three parts. The pilot was badly injured"
Mammen is a village in Viborg Municipality, Denmark 7 km north of Bjerringbro.
NOTE: Several published sources confuse this aircraft with Spitfire RDAF 41-427, which was ex-RAF TB845. That Spitfire was struck off RDAF charge on 17-10-51. Also, it is possible the that allocated RDAF serial 41-438 was never applied to the airframe
Sources:
1. http://www.milfly.dk/pdf/spitfire.pdf
2. https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyulykker_i_Danmark#1940'erne
3. https://www.avialogs.com/spitfire-and-seafire-registry/item/80807-tb584
4. https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/TB584
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._183_Squadron_RAF#Relocation_to_the_mainland_of_Europe
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._122_Squadron_RAF#History
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammen_%28village%29
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Jan-2016 19:17 | TB | Added |
| 30-Jul-2019 10:33 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 13-Aug-2023 21:05 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [[Narrative]] |
| 20-Aug-2023 09:11 | Nepa | Updated [[[Narrative]]] |
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