26
Mar
Consolidated Catalina – FP232
Catalina FP232 took off from RAF Station, Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset, UK at approx. 19:00 on June 13, 1943, to carry out a patrol in Bay ...
26
Mar
Short Sunderland II – W6052
Missing over sea whilst on a navigational exercise and anti submarine patrol out of Oban. The Sunderland operated for the 330 (Norwegia...
26
Mar
Douglas DC-3-194 – G-AGBB
BOAC Flight 777-A, a scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation civilian airline flight on 1 June 1943 from Lisboa-Portela de Sacav...
26
Mar
Short Sunderland Mk III – JM675
The Short Sunderland Mk III flying boat landed in open ocean to rescue the crew members of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber (BD282...
26
Mar
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Mar
26
Mar
Consolidated Catalina 1A – FP224
The aircraft based at RAF JUI (Sierra Leone) crashed at sea.
26
Mar
Lockheed 18-40 Lodestar (C-56B-LO) – G-AGEJ
The Lodestar was reportedly shot down by a Junkers Ju 88 of Luftwaffe 10/NJG 3, piloted by Leutnant Werner Speidel.
26
Mar
Short Sunderland I – T9085
The Short Sunderland I flying boat went missing over the Atlantic Ocean to the West of Ireland.
26
Mar
Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express – 41-11708
The aircraft disappeared off Brazilian coast while enroute from Accra, Ghana to Natal, Brazil. A wide search for the plane was conducte...