Date:	Tuesday 9 July 1940
Time:	22:00
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia
Owner/operator:	609 (West Riding) Sqn RAF
Registration:	R6637
MSN:	726
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	English Channel, off Portland Bill, Dorset, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
R6637: Spitfire Ia (c/no.726) First Flown 27-5-40. Delivered to the RAF at 24 MU 30-5-40. Issued to 609(West Riding) Squadron as 'PR-Q' 4-6-40. Missing from interception off Portland Bill; pilot, Flying Officer Drummond-Hay killed 9-7-40

According to official Air Ministry file into the incident (File AIR 81/1061): "Spitfire R6637 lost in air operations, 9 July 1940. Flying Officer P Drummond-Hay: missing presumed dead"

Airborne from RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire at 21:30 hrs for a combat air patrol; shot down by Lt Egon Mayer, I/JG 2, and crashed into the sea off Portland, Dorset.

Crew of Spitfire R6637:
Flying Officer Peter Drummond-Hay (Pilot) RAF 90321, aged 31, posted as missing, believed killed in action 09/07/1940.

As no trace of Spitfire R6637 or its pilot was ever found, he is Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1980)
2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 81/1061: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14502673
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p009.html
4. https://www.geni.com/people/Fg-Off-Peter-Hay-Drummond-Hay/6000000002115872957
5. http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showpost.php?p=22975&postcount=8
6. http://dorset.hampshireairfields.co.uk/dorcrash.html
7. First of the Few: 5 June - July 1940 By Brian Cull
8. http://hmvf.co.uk/topic/8135-aircraft-crashes-in-dorset-1939-45/
9. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15254746/peter-hay_drummond_hay
10. http://inremembrance.freeforums.net/thread/2613/st-marys-church

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
10-Oct-2019 20:45	Dr. John Smith	Added
11-Oct-2019 21:40	juza7	Updated [Operator]
13-Jan-2020 19:53	stehlik49	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]