On 31st December 1940 the pilot of this aircraft was undertaking a training flight involving steep turns and spins. The aircraft was flying too low when a turn was made and a wing-tip struck Ullswater at 12.00hrs. The pilot escaped the sinking aircraft and was rescued but the aircraft sank to the bottom of the lake in the region of Howtown Pier. In 1974 a team of divers and ATC Cadets brought up the front end of the aircraft which was later held by an ATC group in the Windermere area. Superb photographs of this recovery and reconstructed aircraft are shown in Michael Hurst's book of Lakeland air crashes. The tail of the aircraft is rumoured to be still intact at the bottom of the lake.

Pilot - LAC John Raymond Senior RAFVR (1057241), of Dinnington, Yorkshire.

John Senior was later posted to 207 Squadron. On the night of 5th / 6th April 1944 Warrant Officer Senior was the pilot of Lancaster ME685 flying an operational flight to targets around Toulousse, France when the Lancaster was hit by flak and exploded. He and all his crew were killed and are buried in Toulousse (la Fourguette) Communal Cemetery. He was twenty three years old. He is commemorated on a memorial plaque originally displayed within Stainborough Church but the memorial is now housed in Silkstone Church and he is also commemorated on the village war memorial in Hood Green. The photograph of him shown above was found on "Barnsleywarmemorials/weebly.com".