Tiger Moth G-AKCH

A photograph of the Tiger Moth that crashed on Blairdenon after it made a forced landing at the abandond Airfield at Grangemouth in 1956. Image = original author unknown from Falkirk Herald Photographic Collection/Falkirk Herald/Business Group.

Belonging to Scottish Aero Club LTD. Formerley R5181 of the RAAF. Crashed on 30th August 1957 while on a private flight out of Perth Airport, New Scone.

 

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Supermarine Spitfire R6983


This image is to illustrate the type only and is not the actual aircraft involved.
By The original uploader was Bryan Fury75 at French Wikipedia. - Transferred from fr.wikipedia to Commons by Padawane using CommonsHelper., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5200653

Belonging to No 58 OTU, Crashed on 26th September 1941. R6983 was flying with other Spitfires out of Grangemouth but left formation while descending through cloud and struck the side of Bengengie

Information from:-https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_in_IOM_Scotland_and_NI.pdf

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