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Date: Tuesday 17 December 1940
Time: 10:55 LT
Type: Bristol Bombay Mk I
Owner/operator: 216 Sqn RAF
Registration: L5821 SH-A
MSN: SH.14
Fatalities: Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities: 0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location: Suez Road bombing range, Suez - Egypt
Phase: En route
Nature: Military
Departure airport: RAF Heliopolis, Alamza, Cairo, Egypt
Destination airport: RAF Heliopolis, Alamza, Cairo, Egypt
Narrative:
At 10.55am on the 17th of December 1940, Harold Hobday and his crew took off from Heliopolis in Bristol Bombay Mk I L5821 for local flying and turret practice for air gunners, near the Suez Road bombing range. While making a practice run near the range the aircraft was coming out of a left hand turn in a steep dive after which it stalled and dived into the ground killing the entire crew of seven.

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Spartan 8W Executive Beute captured Spain Condor

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That was my fathers dream plane, but he settled for 1st a surplus Fairchild 24, then a Cessna 120. But the couple of times we saw one at a fly in, he almost drooled when looking at it an speaking with the owners.
 
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Kellet he KD-1/G-1 autogyro

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Type? SE+LH

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Type? KX+NB

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These are the Albatros Al 101D sometimes known as Focke Wulf Fw 55.

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the pic source: LuftArchiv.de - Das Archiv der Deutschen Luftwaffe
 
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