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* recent pilots updated

Sgt Peter Henry Cashen

from: Canada ... details
update: 2024-08-01

Sgt Donald Leroy Kosteff

from: USA Jackson ... details
update: 2024-07-31

P/O Rolla Maxwell Cooke

from: Australia ... details
update: 2024-07-31

Sgt William Robert Irwin

from: Australia Sydney ... details
update: 2024-07-31

F/L Percival Ernest Rosser

from: United Kingdom ... details
update: 2024-07-31

F/O William John Lamerton

from: Australia College Park ... details
update: 2024-07-31

F/L Bruce Albert Bretherton

from: Australia ... details
update: 2024-07-29

W/C Harold Brownlow Morgan Martin

from: Australia ... details
update: 2024-07-27

F/Sgt Cyril Joseph Edwards

from: United Kingdom Berkshire ... details
update: 2024-07-26

Maj Ralph Buckley Palm

from: South Africa KwaZulu-Natal Carolina ... details
update: 2024-07-24

Kapetan Druge Klase Zivolta Boscovic

from: Yugoslavia ... details
update: 2024-07-24

F/L John Claverley Martin

from: New Zealand Timaru ... details
update: 2024-07-24

F/O Ron Lavender Baker

from: United Kingdom Netherne-on-the-hill, Reigate ... details
update: 2024-07-23

F/O William Thomas Hicks Gill

from: Canada ... details
update: 2024-07-23

F/L Patrick Hardy Vesey Wells

from: South Africa Johannesburg ... details
update: 2024-07-22
 
* recent aircraft updated

TE214

stats: LFXVIe CBAF M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE215

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE228

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE229

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE230

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE231

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE232

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE233

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE234

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE235

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE236

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE237

stats: LFXVI ? M266 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE238

stats: HFIX CBAF M70 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE149

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27

TE150

stats: LFIX CBAF M66 ... details
update: 2025-10-27
 
* recent comments & questions

thanks for adding

real honour to have your Dad on the site Jeffrey ... that's quite a story, thanks for sharing. ...

on: pilots, 2017-11-14 ... details

Plane and pilot Recovered

Pilot W/O J.H. Coates recovered by Romagna Air Finders,in Cavarzere (venice) Italy 14/10/2017 ...

on: aircraft, 2017-10-14 ... details

This plane crashed at Cavarzere, Italy. The pilot, F/O Newman, buried. ...

on: aircraft, 2017-09-30 ... details

discrepancy

seems to be an inconsistency in reports about how shot down - friendly fire vs Do217. ...

on: aircraft, 2017-09-15 ... details

Major Virgil C Fields - Salerno Crash La

shot down by return fire Do217 and pilot Major Virgil C Fields crash landed on beach off Salerno 9-9-43, ...

on: aircraft, 2017-09-15 ... details

Added a lot!

Kevin, you've added an incredible number of pilots, starting with your father. Thanks for documenting all of them as you have. ...

on: profile, 2017-09-05 ... details

forged passport?

Some online sources indicate a forged passport, however, there may have been other aspects to his joining the RAF. Apparently, he did leave ...

on: pilots, 2017-09-04 ... details

70 percent of this rebuild is original p

in one of the videos (martin interviewed) it is indicated that 70% of this aircraft is original parts -- incredible -- and, RR232 claim is v ...

on: aircraft, 2017-09-01 ... details