An aircraft, possibly a Spitfire, is listed in crash database in the Yorkshire Air Museum as crashing on Danby Rigg. They have no further information on the incident and it remains my only claim that such an incident occured here. I guess that the aircraft made a good forced landing and the aircraft was recovered and repaired or it is a mis-identification for the Whitley in the Danby Head region.

This incident could relate to that of Spitfire W3656 in early 1942 but no evidence of this has been found. In his book the pilot of W3656 states that he was some five miles south of Whitby when his engine began to fail, from there he was flying a direct route back to Scorton when he force landed on high ground and close to the edge of a steep downward slope. The Form 1180 states this landing occured on an army camp and although it is doubtful that one was on Danby Rigg but this location is on the direct route the pilot would presumably have taken.

Pilot - Name unknown.