Hampden X2970 at Finningley airfield.

At 11.40hrs on 24th June 1941 this 25 Operational Training Unit aircraft was being taxied from a dispersal point to the tarmac part of the airfield at Finningley when it ran through a small depression on the grass. Owing to the fast speed it was being taxied and the hard ground the tail wheel assembly was damaged.

Pilot - P/O G B? Jenkins.

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