On 29th September 1941 this aircraft was damaged in a force-landing near Middleham at 13.40hrs while the pilot was on a training flight.
The propeller and the lower wings of the aircraft were damaged but the pilot is believed to have escaped injury. The exact location for
this incident is not yet known. The aircraft was repaired and continued in it's military service until being sold off becoming G-ASSC, then
N81DH and is still flying under the Swedish registration SE-AMY.
Pilot - LAC James Donald Chetwynd Liggat RAFVR (1209382).
James Liggat received his commission to the rank of P/O on probation (emergency) on 26th August 1942, he rose through the ranks firstly to F/O on
probation (war subs) on 26th February 1942 and to F/Lt (war subs) on 26th August 1944. He transferred to the Admin and Special Duties Branch on 7th June 1945
but left the RAF as a F/Lt due to being medically unfit on 26th January 1946. He was almost certainly born in the Ipswich area of Suffolk in 1920, married twice; once in London on 1940 and again in London in 1966. He died in the Richmond upon Thames area of Surrey in 1981.