Tomahawk AH900? at Dishforth airfield.
On 13th January 1943 the pilot of this 1472 Flight aircraft was carrying out his first solo flight in the Tomahawk aircraft, the aircraft landed heavily at Dishforth and the port wing tip and aileron sustained damage. I made a poor copy of the page in the unit orb and cannot read the identity of the aircraft with any degree of accuracy. It appears to show AH900 but this aircraft is not listed as ever been on charge with 1472 Flight.
Pilot - F/O Henry Emmerson Wright RAF (124194).
The unit is given as being 1472 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Flight in pretty much every modern reference to this number unit that I can find. The 1472 Flight record book gives the unit title as being 1472 (D-B) Flight, or 1472 (Dive-Bombing) Flight. Which is correct is anyone's guess. As the scribe of the orb was there at the time I'm leaning towards 1472 (D-B) Flight being correct.
On 10th February 1943 F/O Wright was killed when Tomahawk AH744 crashed in the Pennine hills west of Barnard Castle while he was undertaking a training flight.