During the afternoon of 11th October 1945 this aircraft was being ferried between two unidentified airfields by an ATA pilot and had been in the air for just over two hours when, while flying over West Cumbria the visibility, light and weather all deteriorated. The pilot then attempted to make a forced landing at 18.10hrs in a field near Bootle railway station with the wheels down but in doing so struck a bank on the edge of his selected field and the aircraft crashed. The aircraft may have struck an embankment, possibly a railway embankment. The investigation into the mishap concluded that the pilot had attempted to fly too far in poor visibility and should have landed at an airfield sooner. A photograph on the internet shows this Anson to have carried the Squadron Code "AN" earlier in the war and also D-Day markings in black and white strips, with the "AN" code being issued to three units only one was in the UK during the last months of the war and therefore it may well have been on the books with the Great Dunmow (airfield) Station Flight during the last year of the war.

Pilot - F/O Charles John Graham ATA (M.460). Uninjured.