Date:	Wednesday 1 March 1944
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide
Owner/operator:	1680 (Transport) Flight, RAF
Registration:	X7513
MSN:	6630
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Neilston, 2 miles SW of Barrhead, East Renfrewshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Abbotsinch, Glasgow (GLA/EGPF)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
C/no. 6630: Taken on charge as X7513 against Contract No B.104592/40 at Abbotsinch Station Flight 31.5.42. To 1680 Flight, Abbotsinch 15.6.43.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when flew into the ground in a snowstorm at Neilston, 2 miles South West of Barrhead, Renfrewshire 1.3.44; all 6 on board (pilot and five passengers) survived, but were injured

Neilston is a village and parish in East Renfrewshire set in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies in the Levern Valley, 2 miles southwest of Barrhead, 3.8 miles south of Paisley, and 5.7 miles south-southwest of Renfrew, at the southwestern fringe of the Greater Glasgow conurbation at approximate co ordinates 55.784663°N 4.423396°W

Brief history of 1680 (Transport) Flight RAF
Formed 24.5.43 as No.1680 (Western Isles) Communications Flight in No. 44 Group at ABBOTSINCH to take over the Western Isles functions of the Abbotsinch Station Flight, ferrying VIP's to the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, Establishment 3 x DH Dominie, 1 x Supermarine Walrus;

6.3.44 Moved to PRESTWICK; 8.4.44 redesignated No. 1680 (Transport) Flight (detachment at Errol 22.4.44-31.5.44 & 1.45, also operated from Errol 9.44 and Machrihanish; 17.8.44 joined No.116 (Transport) Wing;1.1.45 to 47 Group; 1.12.45 to No.46 Group; Disbanded 15.4.46.

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2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p066.html
3. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?13033-What-was-Flight-1680-Abbotsinch-Scotland
4. 1680 (Transport) Flight RAF Operational Record Book (Record of Events for the period 1 June 1943 to 31 March 1946): National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/881/5 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162035
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neilston
6. Lake, A (1999). Flying units of the RAF. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-84037-086-6.
7. Sturtivant, Ray; Hamlin, John (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. Tonbridge, UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0851-3036-59.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
09-Mar-2019 20:31	Dr. John Smith	Added
11-Mar-2019 09:37	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, ]
23-Mar-2025 02:43	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, Category, ]