On 14th October 1944 this Spitfire was being flown on a exercise as part of a training flight involving the crew of Wellington X3546. Both aircraft were part of the Central Gunnery School, based at Catfoss airfield and were almost certainly undertaking some form of fighter affiliation or tactics exercise. While over northern Hull the aircraft collided. This aircraft is believed to have gone out of control immediately and crashed the Ganstead area of Hull into open fields. The pilot was sadly killed. He is listed in the C.G.S. orb as being a 51 O.T.U. pilot.

Pilot - F/Lt John Kirkwood Shaw RAFVR (123245), aged 23, of Seacroft, Leeds. Buried Seacroft Churchyard Extension, Leeds, Yorkshire.