Lightning F.2 XN785 near Hutton Cranswick.
On Monday, 27th April 1964 this 19 Squadron aircraft suffered a problem with the fuel supply during an air-to-air refuelling exercise. The pilot attempted to fly back to Leconfield airfield but then when the fuel level became critical he then made for the disused Hutton Cranswick airfield. Unfortunately the aircraft completely ran out of fuel so that the aircraft then undershot the old concrete by some four hundred metres to the north of the site. The aircraft broke up and while the pilot attempted to eject he was killed.
Pilot - F/O George Charles Davie RAF (4230417), aged 24. From Norwich, Norfolk. Burial location unknown.
Eric Barton, Albert Pritchard and Ken Reast were part of a group of historians that located the crash site with permission from the landowner in June 2000 to confirm the location. Small parts of the aircraft were located.
The RAF moved the wreckage to Dishforth where it was noted as being on the scrap heap in 1965.