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F/Sgt Wilfred Edward Bolton Turner

from: New Zealand ... details
update: 2026-08-04

F/L Victor William Arthur Sheppard

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-04

F/O Percy Berriman

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-04

F/Sgt Peter John Brown

from: Zimbabwe ... details
update: 2026-08-04

F/O Edward Artus

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-04

F/L Frank Henry Harrington

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-03

P/O William Wallace Ottewill

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-03

F/L Allen James Pickup

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-08-02

P/O Frederick James Gunstone

from: Wales ... details
update: 2026-07-28

P/O Robert Colin Willdey

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-07-27

W/C Leslie Sidney Ford

from: Canada Nova Scotia ... details
update: 2026-07-25

F/O George Desmonde Ayre

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2026-07-25

F/O John Charles Dundas

from: United Kingdom Doncaster Barnborough ... details
update: 2026-07-25

P/O David Alexander Blyth

from: Canada ... details
update: 2026-07-23

W/O Elbert Noel Holliday

from: Australia Harbord ... details
update: 2026-07-23
 
* recent aircraft updated

VP438

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP439

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP440

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP441

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP442

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP443

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP444

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP445

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP446

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP447

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP448

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VP449

stats: Seafire-47 SM G88 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN329

stats: F24 KEA G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN330

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

VN331

stats: F24 VAHPk G61 ... details
update: 2025-10-27
 
* recent comments & questions

IP & IP - Benson, early 1945

Hi Richard - I’m interested in the work of the IP & IP flight at Benson in early 1945, could you drop me an email at wright86 AT iCloud DO ...

on: profile, 2025-05-15 ... details

MA408

This aircraft was also in 253 squadron ...

on: aircraft, 2025-05-14 ... details

Can confirm this is a mystery. I have also looked through ORBs over the years and never found anything significant. It was only recently tha ...

on: pilots, 2025-04-23 ... details

Gil Haase 154 squadron

Hello I've also got that photo of your grandfather in the Motor Trader supplement, and it's signed by him! My Dad (pictured on "Caledonia" ...

on: pilots, 2025-04-17 ... details

W3185

The photo is of a P7966. The red centre of the RAF cockade is 5 inches in diameter. The Wxxx series machines had this element 7 inches in di ...

on: aircraft, 2025-04-08 ... details

McDonald

On 31-03-45 Spitfire SM 314 was lost. Pilot that day was F/O G.A McDonald J-41945. 443 Squadron RCAF He was taken PoW. A/C crashed near S ...

on: aircraft, 2025-04-07 ... details

EP405

18-12-42 (92 Squadron) Patrol over Dinghy, F/O D.Turvey crashed while taking off. ...

on: aircraft, 2025-03-31 ... details

BR393

92 Squadron, December 42 ...

on: aircraft, 2025-03-31 ... details