On 28th January 1942 this aircraft was being ferried from Prestick to Catterick when the pilot became lost and the aircraft flew into high
ground in the Stainmore region, thought to be on Beldoo Hill. The pilot was sadly killed in the crash with the wreckage not being found for some period of time.
Nothing more is known.
Pilot - 2nd Officer Richard Horry Winn ATA. Buried Maidenhead Cemetery. His personal details are missing from the CWGC online listing.
The pilot's middle name was not "Harry" as CWGC quote. He appears to have been in the RAF in the early days of the service but the date he receieved a short service commission in the RAF is not known, to the rank of P/O on probation. He was confirmed in the rank of P/O on 28th May 1926 and was posted to 9 Squadron at Manston on 9th November 1926 and rose to F/O on an unknown date possibly in August 1927. He transferred to the RAF Reserve on 10th August 1927. He later relinquished his commission of F/O on 10th August 1931 on completion of his period of service in the Reserve. A bankruptcy announcement in the London Gazette in January 1931 stated that he was from Shipston on Stour, Worcestershire but at that time was living in Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire.
In WW2 he would appear to have offered his services to the ATA and flew as a pilot upto his death doing this job in 1942.
His death was registered in the Westmorland North district.
