Spitfire R6683 at Catfoss airfield.
At dusk on 22th September 1940 this 64 Squadron aircraft crash landed at 19.40hrs on a partially completed concrete runway at Catfoss airfield. The pilot was not injured.
Catfoss's 2 OTU ORB states that the aircraft was collected by Leconfield the following day but cannot have been repaired that quickly so presumbly it was taken back
to Leconfield by road where it was repaired.
Pilot - Sgt Roy Daniel Goodwin RAF (742860).
Roy Goodwin was almost certainly born in Luton in 1918. He joined the RAF around January 1939 and was called up at the start of the War. He received his
commission to the rank of P/O on probation on 13th April 1942 rising to F/O (war subs) on 13th October 1942 and F/Lt (war subs) on 13th April 1944. On 20th
September 1947 he was appointed to a commission in the reconstituted RAFVR and continued his RAFVR service into the 1960's. He died in Hammersmith, London in 1983.
Spitfire R6683 was built to contract 19713/39 by Vickers Armstrong's (Supermarine) Ltd.
at Woolston and first test flown on 30th May 1940, on 3rd June 1940 it was flown to 38 MU at
Llandow and on 5th June 1940 it was taken on charge by 5 OTU at Aston Down. On 14th July 1940 it was
flown to 8 MU at Little Rissington and on 26th July 1940 it was taken on charge by 64 Squadron
at Kenley. On 19th August 1940 it moved with the unit to Leconfield. It sustained Cat.M/FA damage in the
incident at Catfoss on 22nd September 1940 and was repaired on site (but almost certainly at Leconfield)
and returned to the unit. On 6th October 1940 Cat.W(m)/FA damage was recorded when crashed into the
North Sea off Flamborough Head on a patrol with the then pilot Sgt F.F. Vinyard being sadly killed.
To that date it had logged a total of 124 hours flying time.