Unidentified aircraft in Harwood Dale.

On Saturday, 2nd January 1937 two aircraft were being flown from Glasgow to Redcar using a popular route used for ferrying aircraft at the time; flying up the east coast of England and calling in at airfields on the way to re-fuel. whilst over North Yorkshire visibility became bad and the pilots became lost. The aircraft circled the Harwood Dale area for some time in the morning locating a place to land. A landing was eventually made in a turnip field owned by Mr Charles Turner by one aircraft. Soon afterwards, at 13.00hrs, another landed, though neither were damaged. When the weather improved both aircraft took off without incident and flew in the direction of Redcar where it is assumed they landed without further hitch. The identities of either aircraft is not known and the only information located was found in the local Scarborough newspaper which makes not mention of these facts.

Pilots - Names unknown.

There were a number of incidents on this date because of the weather, one aircraft that was damaged on this date, but not at Harwood Dale. was Hawker Hart K5845 based at Thornaby which hit a tree in forced landing while the pilot was carrying out a navigation exercise and the landing is believed to have been somewhere in the region of eight miles from Bridlington. Harwood Dale is well over this distance so cannot be the aircraft involved.