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No 71 (Eagle) Sqn Hawker Hurricane Mk I XR-A Z3781 personal A/C of Fl Lt George A Brown, whilst commander of A flight, at dispersal hooked up in preparation with the trolley ack and with parachute left at hand for a fast scramble on the tail plane.
Part of the fifth production batch produced by Hawker Aircraft Limited at Langley, to contract # 62305/39, between 14th January, 1941 and 28th July, 1941.
Lost on 8th October 1941, Fl Lt Andrew Beck Mamedoff was flying with 133 Squadron on a standard transit flight from Fowlmere Airfield to RAF Eglinton in Northern Ireland in his Hurricane Z3781. The wreckage of his plane was found near Maughold on the Isle of Man and it is thought that he crashed due to poor weather conditions.
Squadron
'On 19 September 1940, No. 71 was reformed at Church Fenton as the first 'Eagle' Squadron to be manned by American personnel. The Squadron received Hurricanes in November and became operational on defensive duties on 5 February 1941. No. 71 converted...
Military | Wing Commander | Pilot / flight commander
Sq Ldr George Alfred Brown DFC:
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Military | Flight Lieutenant | Pilot
Mamedoff was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1911. He grew up in Thompson, Connecticut, and attended Bryant College in the early 1930s. He had learned to fly in the USA and even had his own plane with which he performed at airshows. He and Eugene Tobin had...
Hurricane
Hawker Hurricane Mk I XR-A Z3781, part of the fifth production batch produced by Hawker Aircraft Limited at Langley, to contract # 62305/39, between 14th January, 1941 and 28th July, 1941.
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Military site : airfield
Used as an RFC and RAF Home Defence landing ground during the First World War, Kirton-in-Lindsey was built during 1938-40 as an RAF fighter station. It had two grass runways, 10 hardstandings, three grouped C hangars and four over-blister hangars....
Military site : airfield
Opened in 1917 as home to the RFC Aeroplane Experimental Unit, Martlesham Heath became well known during the 1920s-30s as home to the Aircraft and Armament Experimental Establishment. Used as an RAF fighter station from 1939, with only a grass airfield...
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| 23 February 2016 21:12:38 | Al_Skiff | Changes to unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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| 28 July 2015 23:09:18 | Al_Skiff | Changes to caption |
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| 28 July 2015 18:32:14 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with caption, unit associations and place associations |
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