Bristol Beaufort N1180

This image is to illustrate the type only and is not the actual aircraft involved.
public domain By RAF official.collections of the Imperial War Museums.

From No.1 TTU out of RAF Turnberry.  Crashed on 2nd September 1942 while on a Night Navigation Flight after being blown of track by a strong westerley wind.

 

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Bristol Beaufighter LZ455


This image is to illustrate the type only and is not the actual aircraft involved.
Image from Airfix box art.

Belonging to No.2 Overseas Aircraft Preparation Unit.  Crashed into  Beinn Breach on the 30th October 1943 while being ferried from Filton to Port Ellen.

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Vickers Wellington LB137


This image is to illustrate the type only and is not the actual aircraft involved.
By Unknown author - Royal Air Force, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11190364

Belonging to 6 OTU, crashed on 2nd December 1943 while on a training mission out of RAF Silloth.

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Lockheed Neptune WX545.


A photo of WX545, RAF, original author unknown.

No 36 Squadron RAF, based at Topcliffe but on detachment to Ballykelly. Crashed in thick fog on 10th October 1956 while flying south along the Kintyre Coast during an anti submarine exercise.


 

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Boeing Chinnook ZD576.


This image is to illustrate the type only and is not the actual aircraft involved.
By Adrian Pingstone (Arpingstone) - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4389378

Crashed in thick fog on 2 June 1994 while ferrying Army, Security and Intelligence Services personnel from Aldergrove in Northern Ireland to Inverness.

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AW Whitley P5041


This image is to illustrate the type only and is not the actual aircraft involved.
Wikipedia commons, original author unknown.

Belonging to 502 Squadron RAF based at Aldergrove in Northern Ireland. Crashed on 23rd January 1941 after becoming lost in bad weather while on Convoy excort duties.

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Lockheed Hudson AE640.


This image is to illustrate the type only and is not the actual aircraft involved.
Ni48 Sqn RAF from from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.

 New aircraft being delivered to the UK from the Lockheed factory in America by the Overseas Aircraft Despatch Flight. Crashed in woods just below Feorlan cottage on the Mull of Kintyre on the 25th July 1941.

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Avro Shackleton WB833


A photograph of WB833 taken by an AVRO company photographer.

Belonging to 204 Squadron RAF based at Ballykelly in Northern Ireland. Crashed after flying into thick sea mist on 19th April 1968 while on an anti Submarine exercise.

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