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Old 17th September 2018, 08:19
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Spitfires BL887 and P8785

These 2 machines collided over Aberdeenshire on 28/12/43.

Bailey (146421) and Faulkner (169737) were the pilots, any ideas who flew what machine?
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Old 18th September 2018, 03:01
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Re: Spitfires BL887 and P8785

Hello Alan,
Have sent you a pm
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Old 18th September 2018, 11:00
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Re: Spitfires BL887 and P8785

Hi Alex, I don't appear to have received the PM

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Old 18th September 2018, 16:16
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Re: Spitfires BL887 and P8785

Hello Alan

This question is also being asked, by Phil Listemann, on rafcommands.com, suggest if you are not the same person, under another name, that you discuss this matter between yourselves in case you are holding information needed by the other person

http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/sho...L887-and-P8785

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Old 18th September 2018, 17:21
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Re: Spitfires BL887 and P8785

Hi Allan

I was unaware of somebody looking elsewhere for this.

I got details from RAFWEB.ORG based on an Email from a local person here who listed a few crashes in the Slains area.
Their listing didn't state who was in what machine.

He gave me additional info but with no dates of other crashes that I am trying to research. One possibly a Mosquito, the other reference (collision) spitfires either from Dyce or Peterhead.

Eddie Irvine, working on his father's farm at Netherleask at the time, told me that a RAF plane made an emergency landing in a* field at Netherleask. Eddie said he saw the plane fly so low that it clipped the top of a corn ruck on the neighboring farm of Milton of Leask, straw got caught in a wing flap and the plane was forced to land. Eddie said there were two airmen aboard, one of them said ''We're in for the high jump now''. The plane was guarded overnight and removed on a lorry the following day. Eddie couldn't remember which year this happened, but he knew it was in the springtime because of the work he was doing.

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The other incident I heard of happened near the Meikle Loch in Slains. Two British planes collided, one managed to fly away, the other crashed. The pilot of the crashed plane parachuted down safely. My grandfather saw the pilot come down, my grandfather and the school headmaster rushed to help him. The pilot, who was maybe Czechoslovakian, was seen kicking his boots off as he was above the Meikle Loch. He landed in the water, was helped out and taken to Slains schoolhouse. The aircraft came down near the farm buildings at Whitefields on the north side of the Meikle Loch. The engine of the aircraft broke free and bounced past Charlie Reid who was ploughing with horses in a field next to the loch.

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Old 19th September 2018, 04:23
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Re: Spitfires BL887 and P8785

Hello Allan,
P M seems to have disappeared ?
Not even in my "sent" box.
Sending another soon.
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Old 20th September 2018, 09:52
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Re: Spitfires BL887 and P8785

Following up on the "The other incident I heard of happened near the Meikle Loch in Slains. Two British planes collided, one managed to fly away, the other crashed. The pilot of the crashed plane parachuted down safely. My grandfather saw the pilot come down, my grandfather and the school headmaster rushed to help him. The pilot, who was maybe Czechoslovakian, was seen kicking his boots off as he was above the Meikle Loch. He landed in the water, was helped out and taken to Slains schoolhouse. The aircraft came down near the farm buildings at Whitefields on the north side of the Meikle Loch. The engine of the aircraft broke free and bounced past Charlie Reid who was ploughing with horses in a field next to the loch."

Trying to identify an aircraft / pilot / date

Looking at limited info

310 Squadron, possibly based at RAF Dyce
or 315 Squadron based at Peterhead
or 312 Squdron June august 1943 at Peterhead
Collision in the air - 2 machines, 1 crashed
Pilot survived
July to September 1941 (310 Squadron)
Nov 1944 (315 Sqd)
As the farmer was ploughing, suggests late summer - Early Autumn
Possibly Hurricane or Spitfire
- 310 sq, or Mustang 315 sq

Anybody any lists of machines lost in Aberdeenshire.
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Old 9th April 2021, 15:58
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Re: Spitfires BL887 and P8785

Bailey (146421) - BL887
Faulkner (169737) P8785
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