Avro Tutor K6095.
There is a total lack of information about this aeroplane and a possible incident that saw it damaged, probably in Yorkshire, during Summer 1939. Other historians in the past have made a claim that it was damaged during July or early August 1939 and at Yeadon because that was where 609 Squadron were based as they had the aeroplane on their charge at the time. It was struck off charge on 6th August 1939.
609 Squadron were based at Yeadon at the time so the assumption has always been that it was damaged there. 609 Squadron undertook a training camp at Church Fenton during the first two weeks of August 1939 to carry out a range of training exercises where already qualified auxilliary pilots were given additional training on a range of areas while less experienced and unqualified pilots were given pilot training so that three made their first solo flights during the camp. With an absence of information as to what happened to Tutor K6095 I feel that it is not beyond the realm of possibility that an incident occurred at Church Fenton.
Pilot - Name unknown.
Tutor K6095 was built to contract 411542/35 by A.V.Roe and Co. Ltd. at Chadderton and was delivered to No.2 Aircraft Storage Unit at Cardington on 17th August 1935. It was eventually issued to No.2 Group HQ Flight at Wyton on 10th May 1937 and was later transferred to 609 Squadron at Yeadon on 21st March 1938. It was struck off charge on 6th August 1939 and eventually scrapped.
What is confirmed is that 60 M.U. noted in their record book that in February 1940 they collected it and it was ready for scrap only. Presumably over the Winter of 1939-40 it had been slowly stripped of anything of use.