Unidentified aircraft on Lodge Moor, Great Whernside.

This incident currently has little information. Believed to have occurred in the mid to late 1920s and involved an aircraft that crashed onto the east side of Great Whernside. Whether this involved a civilian or a military aircraft is not clear. If it were military it probably involved an aircraft of a squadron that was just passing through Yorkshire. The only RAF Unit in Yorkshire at this time was No.26 Squadron which re-formed at Catterick on 11th October 1927 using Atlas aircraft.

The date has never been recorded in the modern era. I have heard that it occurred just before No.26 Squadron reformed at Catterick but have not got any source documentation to prove or further attempt to research this.

The probability of it being a civilian aeroplane is therefore believed stronger, mainly because the incident was referred to in an article in the Dalesman magazine in the 1960's as such. It was also stated that workers building Scarhouse reservoir dam had gone to the site to give assistance to those in it.

Crew - Names unknown.

For a time in the modern era, a possible identity for the aircraft was that of DH.60 Cirrus Moth G-EBLV that crashed somewhere in the Pennines on 18th February 1928 while being flown in strong winds. A forced landing was made but the aircraft overturned. This was not the aircraft to have crashed on Great Whernside as G-EBLV crashed at Greyrigg, near Kendal on a flight from Woodford to Appleby.

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