Can anyone help in the identification of the wreckage of this aircraft. The photograph was taken around 1940/1941 in Northamptonshire.
Could it possibly be an Airspeed Oxford which is known to have crashed near Daventry in 1941? It was on a training flight out of Cranwell when it hit a mast. Although a black and white image the light and dark colours of the wreckage suggest it could have been Yellow and Camouflage and wreckage appears to be of a wooden airframe.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Mike
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By: Mikeg - 3rd August 2015 at 20:59
I can’t help but agree that it doesn’t look like August with what appears to be bare trees in the background or the coat which the guy is wearing. Regarding the information from Paul, thanks, but I already had this information. I was just looking at the possibility that this may have been the wreckage of P6811 as the field in the photograph with the ground rising behind would fit with the known crash site. The Oxford collided with one of the masts on Borough Hill and crashed in a field below. The guy in the photograph is the late father in law of the person who sent me the photograph and was from the Daventry area. With this information I felt there was just a chance, even if remote, that the wreckage in the photograph may have been P6811.
Thanks for your responses. Much appreciated.
Mike
By: John Aeroclub - 3rd August 2015 at 15:36
Proctor? It appears to me to be a ‘cabin’ type. Can I see wireless gear? The wing part to the right looks to me to be perhaps the wing fold panel.
John
By: WV-903. - 3rd August 2015 at 14:32
Magister ??
Hi Mike,
Looks too small and too wooden to be an Anson. My hunch is it’s a Magister. Agree about it isn’t summer too.
Bill T.
By: adrian_gray - 3rd August 2015 at 13:48
Looking at the background, although it’s out of focus, the trees look bare – I think this might be a winter incident rather than a summer one.
Entirely unhelpful, but I think the car is a Ford V8.
Adrian
By: paulmcmillan - 3rd August 2015 at 13:41
I am not saying it is Oxford wreckage, but the Oxford that hit the Mast in August 1941 was
15.8.41 Oxford II P6811 RAFC Daventry FIG Pilot LAC (Pilot u/t) William BULLOCK – 655318;
William Bullocks ,21,(the age on CWGC) death registered at Daventry,
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