Date:	Sunday 4 August 1935
Time:	day
Type:	Hawker Demon Mk I
Owner/operator:	604 (County of Middlesex) Sqn RAF
Registration:	K4502
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Colindale Underground Station, near RAF Hendon, Middlesex, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Hendon, Middlesex
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Hawker Demon K4502: Written off (destroyed) 04/08/1935 when engine failed on take-off & crashed onto the electric railway line and burned, north of Colindale Underground Station, near RAF Hendon, Middlesex. Both crew killed.
The wreck was on the bridge over a footpath linking Montrose Park with Booth Road.
A witness, Mr Knight from 161 Booth Road, documented the scene with a series of photographs which were eventually donated to the RAF Museum Hendon.
Crew:
F/O Robert Louis Nimmo (pilot) RAF Aux AF: killed.
AC1 Sidney John Mabbutt (RAF): killed

1. Air-Britain The K File The RAF of the 1930s
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1937.htm
3. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/69235
4. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?17884-RAF-fatalities-1935
5. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g9kakNt8X8k/UBlbfQMx7PI/AAAAAAAAadU/tYDed91X1_c/s1600/A_8188.jpg
6. Dundee Evening Telegraph Angus, Scotland 20 Aug 1935
7. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/69235
8. Memorial Plaque to R.L.Nimmo in Dunblance Cathedral: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g9kakNt8X8k/UBlbfQMx7PI/AAAAAAAAadU/tYDed91X1_c/s1600/A_8188.jpg

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
07-Oct-2009 21:09	JINX	Added
18-Jan-2012 06:37	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
06-Jul-2013 13:43	JINX	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
14-Jul-2013 02:53	JINX	Updated [Source, ]
02-Aug-2013 14:21	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Narrative, ]
04-Aug-2013 06:53	JINX	Updated [Operator, Location, ]
04-Aug-2013 09:44	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location, Narrative, ]
04-Aug-2013 15:02	JINX	Updated [Operator, Location, ]
14-Oct-2014 15:04	yarbi	Updated [Operator, Location, ]
22-Jan-2016 06:23	JINX	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, ]
26-Mar-2016 20:31	Yarbi	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, ]
01-Mar-2018 16:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
05-Apr-2018 22:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
05-Apr-2018 22:43	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
05-Apr-2018 22:49	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, ]
05-Apr-2018 23:45	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, ]
03-May-2023 16:30	LincsCR50	Updated
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