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RAF Wigtown
Hi all.
Date: 03-SEP-1939 Time: 15:00 LT Type: Westland Wallace Mk II Owner/operator: 9 AOS Royal Air Force (9 AOS RAF) Registration: K6028 Fatalities: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: Bruntwood Tap, Bennachie, Scotland - United Kingdom Phase: En route Nature: Military Departure airport: RAF Wigtown, Cumberland Destination airport: RAF Evanton, Easter Ross Question, RAF Wigtown, was it operational in 1939? |
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Re: RAF Wigtown
Odd details Alan
Not being British it took me quite awhile to see that there is something wrong here. I can only locate one Wigtown which is in Wigtownshire (Scotland), but your take off point gives Wigtown in Cumberland. As far as I can see there is no Wigtown in Cumberland (which is in England and not Scotland) Checking RAF Wigtown (in Wigtownshire), it seems to have received its first unit on 13 Sep 1941 (1 AOS) If Cumberland (nice sauce BTW) is what is correct, the name of the airfield must be something else....I think.... Anyone else? Cheers Stig |
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Re: RAF Wigtown
Hi Stig
I was trying to get to grips with a plane departing an airfield, that in theory wasn't open. The plane was listed as from RAF Penhros in north Wales. I wonder if the flight came from North Wales and Wigtown (the area) is a good landmark based on the shape of the land. So Wigtown was a waypoint rather than an Airfield. Regards Alan |
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Re: RAF Wigtown
Good point Alan
Nice to see we agree that Wigtown itself is a very unlikely take off point. Cheers Stig |
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Re: RAF Wigtown
Just to add that Wigtown (Bay) is also mentioned in Flight Magazine of 24 April 1924 as a waypoint (or even quick landing ground?) on a mail & passenger run between Belfast and Liverpool.
Regards, Leendert |
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Re: RAF Wigtown
Usual regurgitated crap, copy and pasted from elsewhere - passed off as gospel by a site that claims copyright on content but refuses to actively stop it's own infringement.
Corrected Form 1180 states No.1 A O School Ferry to Evanton on disbandment of No.1 AOS Ross |
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Re: RAF Wigtown
Hi Ross
Nice to see you back again. You are quite right No 1 AOS merged into 9 AOS when that unit formed at 3.9.1939 at Penrhos. On 2.9.1939 1 AOS moved (in advance) to Penrhos and it seems their aircraft were dispersed from that base to plenty of others, among them Evanton on the 3rd. So what we are looking at was an aircraft moving from Penrhos to Evanton Cheers Stig |
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