Aircraft at Aldershot
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Aircraft at Aldershot
Does anyone know what the aircraft were at the top of Hospital Hill, Aldershot in the mid-fifties, and why they were there?
We swapped buses there on our way from Fleet to Farnborough G.S.
Or the ident of the Spitfire that crashed in Aldershot Road, Fleet, I would guess around 1950?
Grateful for any help.
We swapped buses there on our way from Fleet to Farnborough G.S.
Or the ident of the Spitfire that crashed in Aldershot Road, Fleet, I would guess around 1950?
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My father was stationed at Aldershot around 1950 with the Royal Corps of Signals, and I recall going there for a children's Christmas Party and playing games around an Airspeed Horsa, though I don't remember exactly where it was.
The record of RAF losses for 1950 shows only one Spitfire that might fit the bill: F.22 PK322 crashed at Church Crookham on 11 June after losing its tail in a mid-air collision with PK323.
Hope this helps.
The record of RAF losses for 1950 shows only one Spitfire that might fit the bill: F.22 PK322 crashed at Church Crookham on 11 June after losing its tail in a mid-air collision with PK323.
Hope this helps.
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Very many thanks, and apols for late reply due to travel.
Yes, Horsa does ring a bell, not certain why.
Appreciate the Spitfire details, but strange that the records mixup Church Crookham with Fleet. The fuselage came down in Aldershot Road next to a stream that feeds into the canal, the tail scared the occupants of a house in Regent Street. Pity cameras weren't a la mode in those days. I wonder what the other aircraft in the formation were, and what they were doing on a Sunday!
Great lead anyway, and I'll follow up on it. Even got Fleet's historian interested.
brgds
Yes, Horsa does ring a bell, not certain why.
Appreciate the Spitfire details, but strange that the records mixup Church Crookham with Fleet. The fuselage came down in Aldershot Road next to a stream that feeds into the canal, the tail scared the occupants of a house in Regent Street. Pity cameras weren't a la mode in those days. I wonder what the other aircraft in the formation were, and what they were doing on a Sunday!
Great lead anyway, and I'll follow up on it. Even got Fleet's historian interested.
brgds
