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By: - 14th January 2018 at 12:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Same subject being discussed on TOCH forum
By: - 14th January 2018 at 18:26 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The current master version of the FAA aircraft serials files (which, together with Mick Burrow - not Burrows! - I keep updated) gives the following. We are both working through the types, adding to and amending them with the plan to produce a second edition before too long:
X9560 Not delivered, possibly destroyed in bombing, Cowes 4/5.5.42 [More likely the a/c which crashed on TO Brooklands 1.7.42 after being built at Weybridge (L/C GS Lamb killed)
Mick may have more, but I haven't got the amends for Walrus from him yet.
Lee
By: - 18th February 2018 at 11:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Lee:
Identity of aircraft was X9558. Have sent a PM...
fana
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By: fana - 13th January 2018 at 18:19
Hello, Forumites
Back in 2012, "GSinclair" posted a thread on the anomalies found from various sources regarding the actual figures of Fleet Air Arm aircraft production
figures against details in published works, in that there was a discrepancy (including those of other aircraft types) on the official number against actual number of Walrus
aircraft produced.
I am interested in determining the identity of a Walrus aircraft produced at Addlestone, Surrey and which crashed at the nearby Chertsey Meads flying field
on the 1st July 1942. The pilot, Geoffrey Silverwood LAMB and his passenger, Ron Conway, both perished in the crash.
No details of this accident are mentioned in the Sturtivant and Burrows book on FAA aircraft.
There are, by elimination, several candidates which possibly fit the bill. The S & B book uses data from, I presume, official Records; where information is unclear, any losses
are put down to "possibly" destroyed during the air raid on the Cowes factory in May 1942.
Does anybody on the Board have ideas as to the identity of the aircraft which crashed at Chertsey Meads??
Tia
Fana