Squadron Aircraft: Summary Information

Summary

Listed below is the information available for this aircraft which served in 550 Squadron.

Aircraft Details: The column headers should be fairly self-explanatory. The final column (Web links) contains, where given, links to other items on this web-site or indeed to external sources where further information or photographs, etc can be found.

Associated Aircrew: This is the list of servicemen known to have flown on this aircraft at some time or other, it is not a particular crew (that can be found on other lists available on the site such as the crew shown on a specific operation, etc).

Definitions of the abbreviations used are available: here.

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Aircraft Details

Aircraft Details Associated Aircrew
Id Service Number Name No. of Ops BQ-Code Other Information Web Links Name
M DV279 - - BQ-M Hit by Flak ex Scholven-Buer 18/19 July 1944.
The crew managed to regain the East Anglia coast.
Crashed at Seething, 9 miles north of Norwich.
Pilot F/O Clark killed, remainder baled out and survived.
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P/O W N H Brawn
F/O M A Buchanan
P/O C G H Kenyon
F/O P C Sharp
F/Sgt W R J Maroney
P/O E C Purney
Sgt J L Sheahan
Sgt T E Flanagan
Sgt E J Molnar
Sgt D Yardley
Sgt K H F de Lengerke
Sgt J G Hill
F/O W Boocock
Sgt G T Sutherland
F/O M C Eckhold
F/Sgt A J W Mudford
Sgt L E Dagless
Sgt M Muir
Sgt T Setchfield
F/O C Stocks
F/O G H Packham
Sgt C C C Pettit
Sgt J Matthews
Sgt J S Jenkins
Sgt F A Willson
Sgt J Jackson
Sgt E J Morgan
F/O H A T Clark
Sgt W Aspinall
F/Sgt G W James
F/Sgt W E Reed
Sgt P E Binder
Sgt W E Johnson
Sgt D L Marks
F/Sgt J N Ellis
F/Sgt G E Duncan
Sgt G K Logan
Sgt L M Collicutt
F/O L Wareham
Sgt F J Thrush
F/O B O Sibree
F/O G F Bodman
Sgt C A McKernan
Sgt J H Washington
F/O R W Kemp
Sgt E A Johnson
F/O H B Snelgrove
Sgt E Clarke
P/O A E Sutton
Sgt L E Updike
Sgt W G Beney
P/O E F Marles
Sgt G L Grant
Sgt H W Cooper
F/Sgt J H Elliott
Sgt A Cleghorn
Sgt J E Roberts
Sgt E W Kendall
F/Sgt D C Barton

This aircraft is one of the 550 Squadron aircraft that was lost on operations.
The details of those air-crew who lost their lives while on operations in this aircraft are listed on the 550 Squadron Roll of Honour, see: DV279.

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The details were last updated: 21 November 2024


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