YOUNGHUSBAND, Richard H
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rank: F/Lstatus: survived
airforce: RAF
born: 1908-08-12 United Kingdom
added by: Adrian Dwyer
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Richard H Younghusband (Civilian Contractor Pilot, aged 45 and former RAF pilot) - killed in service 23/7/1953, when is Spitfire TB747 crashed at Langham, 5 miles north-west of Holt, Norfolk.
The following is adapted from post by Chris (on Flickr).
Seven-years after joining the RAF, Richard was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Reserve: possibly attached to 501 Squadron at RAF Filton flying Hawker Hinds - but he is not recorded in the squadrons ORB for that time. Throughout its existence, RAF Filton shared the airfield with the Bristol Aeroplane Company and it appears that Richard was flying for the Bristol company.
On 25th. August 1938, at 0900 hrs, Richard took off from Filton flying an aircraft that was very likely a Hawker PV. 4 to test a Bristol engine. The aircraft was reported by eyewitnesses to be suffering engine trouble and it crashed shortly after into a small wood at Dursley, Gloucestershire. The aircraft had hit a tree and was totally wrecked. Richard was removed from the aircraft and carried on piece of farm fencing as a makeshift stretcher to an ambulance. In Gloucester hospital it was found that he had a fractured skull and thigh and internal injuries. He would also lose a leg and eventually left hospital in March 1939 (seven months after the accident).
During World War Two Richard flew for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), ferrying aircraft from factories and maintenance units to RAF airfields. After the war he continued to fly and by 1953 Richard was flying from RAF Langham, near Holt, Norfolk, (an airfield that was administered by Marshalls of Cambridge as part of their Flying School). On the 32rd. July 1953 he was flying Spitfire LF. XVI, TB 747 of 2 CAACU (Civilian Anti Aircraft Co-Operation Unit) based at RAF Horsham St. Faith, when the aircraft failed to pull out of a dive. He was 45 years old.
The Langham Dome museum on the former grounds of RAF Langham was gifted a replica Spitfire, made by GB Replicas, that was surplus to the requirements of the RAF Museum at Hendon in London.
The following is adapted from post by Chris (on Flickr).
Seven-years after joining the RAF, Richard was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Reserve: possibly attached to 501 Squadron at RAF Filton flying Hawker Hinds - but he is not recorded in the squadrons ORB for that time. Throughout its existence, RAF Filton shared the airfield with the Bristol Aeroplane Company and it appears that Richard was flying for the Bristol company.
On 25th. August 1938, at 0900 hrs, Richard took off from Filton flying an aircraft that was very likely a Hawker PV. 4 to test a Bristol engine. The aircraft was reported by eyewitnesses to be suffering engine trouble and it crashed shortly after into a small wood at Dursley, Gloucestershire. The aircraft had hit a tree and was totally wrecked. Richard was removed from the aircraft and carried on piece of farm fencing as a makeshift stretcher to an ambulance. In Gloucester hospital it was found that he had a fractured skull and thigh and internal injuries. He would also lose a leg and eventually left hospital in March 1939 (seven months after the accident).
During World War Two Richard flew for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), ferrying aircraft from factories and maintenance units to RAF airfields. After the war he continued to fly and by 1953 Richard was flying from RAF Langham, near Holt, Norfolk, (an airfield that was administered by Marshalls of Cambridge as part of their Flying School). On the 32rd. July 1953 he was flying Spitfire LF. XVI, TB 747 of 2 CAACU (Civilian Anti Aircraft Co-Operation Unit) based at RAF Horsham St. Faith, when the aircraft failed to pull out of a dive. He was 45 years old.
The Langham Dome museum on the former grounds of RAF Langham was gifted a replica Spitfire, made by GB Replicas, that was surplus to the requirements of the RAF Museum at Hendon in London.
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