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Lt M Stevens

from: South Africa ... details
update: 2025-02-27

F/L William John Henderson

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-02-25

F/O Alan Sidney Holt

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-02-24

F/L Harold James Strickland Taylor

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-02-23

Sgt Charles Duncan Spruce

from: United Kingdom Meir Heath ... details
update: 2025-02-22

W/O Dudley Albert Grinlington

from: Australia Victoria Armadale ... details
update: 2025-02-22

W/O Zenon Stefan Teofil Bartkowiak

from: Poland Pleszew ... details
update: 2025-02-21

P/O Richard Alan Day

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-02-21

W/C George Clinton Keefer

from: Canada ... details
update: 2025-02-20

F/O Leonard Edmond Williams

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-02-20

P/O Robert William Theobald

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-02-20

F/L Nigel Lewis Somerset-Leeke

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-02-20

F/L Parke Farr Smith

from: USA ... details
update: 2025-02-20

F/O Stanley Neville Hancock

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-02-18

F/L William Lionel Ravenhill

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2025-02-18
 
* recent aircraft updated

TP276

stats: FRXVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP277

stats: FRXVIII EA G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP278

stats: FRXVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP279

stats: FRXVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP280

stats: FRXVIII EA G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP281

stats: FRXVIII EA G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP282

stats: FRXVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP283

stats: FRXVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP284

stats: FRXVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP229

stats: XVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP230

stats: XVIII KEA G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP231

stats: XVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP232

stats: XVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP233

stats: XVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TP234

stats: XVIII ALD G65 ... details
update: 2025-10-27
 
* recent comments & questions

Yes it's a mystery

Agree I also gave the ORBs a look over, no mention in particular on June 30 (per aircraft DB on MB784) or July 1. No earlier mention in Jun ...

on: pilots, 2022-09-21 ... details

Questions remain

am tagging this pilot Sgt E Allen as 'unsolved' as require DOB, date joined, and, any further history such as where he trained (details), wh ...

on: pilots, 2022-09-16 ... details

Thanks for adding details Renee

I added a note with your details in the pilot BIO with aircraft flow, thankyou Renee and please thank his grand-daughter for the photos and ...

on: pilots, 2022-09-08 ... details

Neville Dukes Spitfires

Hi Lewis. I've used the ORBs from 92 and 145 squadrons to add the ones he is documented to have flown. There's quite a few, but it won't be ...

on: aircraft, 2022-09-06 ... details

Reg Goodhew

Reg was my second cousin. Recently my husband and I visited his grave at Andreas and learned more about his fatal crash from Ivor Ramsden a ...

on: pilots, 2022-09-03 ... details

Neville Duke spitfires

I am currently reading a book entitled Test Pilot by Neville Duke. He also included some old photos of some of the Spitfires he flew. The s ...

on: aircraft, 2022-09-02 ... details

Love this photo

hat's my father, John Bendixsen, sitting on the top of the Spit. To his right, I think, is Bob Mackie. Recently identified by Michael Pre ...

on: article, 2022-08-25 ... details

My grandfather, John Heber Percy flew this Spitfire on April 12 1941 as part of a Convoy patrol with No. 152 Hyderabad Sqd. from RAF Portrea ...

on: aircraft, 2022-08-13 ... details