Martinet EM439 at Catfoss airfield.
On 3rd August 1945 this Central Gunnery School aircraft was to have been flown on a drogue towing flight, while taxying at Catfoss airfield prior to take off the brakes failed and the aircraft collided with stationary YMCA van that had been allowed onto the active airfield.
Pilot - W/O Roger Mullard RAFVR (1209128).
Passenger - Name unknown.
Master Pilot Mullard died in early 1960 in the Newcastle area, he was thirty eight years old.