I was hoping you might show up Brakedwell. What I said was that they were the only numbers that COULD be RAF serials. I do not believe they are (from the fact that one was a Warwick and the other was not used). Probably part numbers. The date is approximate. I simply quoted from Saro's notebook.
I can find no civil crash that would fit, and I have no record of any military one either. There was a Pakistani DC3 crashed in 1953 soon after takeoff from Sharjah (being flown by the co-pilot in the left seat at night without instrument skills, it seems). (Sound familiar?)
By the way, was there an airfield in the 1950s at the site of the present Umm al Quain airfield, a bit north of Sharjah, but not as far north as Ras Al Khaimah?
Cheers
Laurence
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