Help identifying crashed aircraft.

Duh!… I should have noticed that – yes different prang for the same aircraft.

K1289 seemed to have lived a battered life!

Thanks for kind words on the book.

Happy to share ,Anne. The K files don’t always have the big picture (excellent though they are). The Wapiti had a tendency to be an ostrich, probably due to the initial design flaw of using the short fuselage and the 6′ track U/c.

John

Same aircraft, different prang. The markings are different. Can I just add that John is quite correct in saying your book is rather excellent.

Oops, John got there before me!

Anne

Not the same time, different markings on K1289.

John

Here is another view of the same prang of K1289

I am quite sure, we saw the very same two photos elsewhere on this forum..

Though K1289 is shown as “crashlanded in field, Pushtakhara near Peshawar 30.06.41;” It was actually flown out the next day out of the forcelanded area back to Peshawar as I found a logbook entry of it being flown out. It was probably SOC soon afterwards.

Added Later: err.. A deja Vu moment http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?131517-Information-sought-on-crashed-aircraft&highlight=K1289

I thought that the second picture (serial unreadable) might be a Wapiti V as it has all the Army Co-op gear, but the valve gear shows it to be fitted with a Jupiter VIII not a Jupiter IX. Robbo’s post shows the aircraft with 27 Sqn according to Jagan’s excellent book.

John

I can’t read the serial number of the second picture but it might be a Wapiti V as it’s fitted with all the Army Co-op equipment.

John

History for Wapiti IIA K1289 Del. 9.12.30; AD Drigh road1.5.31; 31 Sqn; 5Sqn; 27Sqn coded H; 1 IAF Sqn; engine cut, crashlanded in field, Pushtakhara near Peshawar 30.06.41; struck off charge 17.07.42.
Hope this helps,
Alan.

The two photographs in the OPs original post illustrate two different aircraft.

Found on RAF Commands

Weatland Wapiti IIA.

Dave

I’m going to try, David. They were sideways every time I clicked on them to view them on the forum. When I downloaded them and then viewed them, they were properly rotated, though I did nothing to rotate them.

I’ve enhanced each slightly, and I’m reposting them. Hoping they won’t show up 90 degrees off, again. Fingers crossed…

Perhaps someone can straighten these out for me, I tried and failed miserably.

Help identifying crashed aircraft.

It’s either a Westland Wallace or a Westland Wapiti ( I think)……I would lean towards Wapiti but I am not too clear on the finer points.