Typhoon Ib RB363 at Breighton airfield.

On 29th November 1945 this aircraft was being flown Middleton St.George to Litchfield when, thirty minutes into the flight, the pilot made a landing at Breighton for an unknown reason. After landing the pilot began to taxi around the airfield but was travelling too fast and ran off the perimeter track and struck a stack of oxygen bottles stored close by and was damaged. The aircraft was in the care of No.84 Group Disbandment Centre (possibly having their administrative headquarters as Lasham). No.84 Group was an RAF group within the Second Tactical Air Force and appears to have been in the process of disbanding at the time of this incident, which, if correct, would suggest that the aircraft was being flown for disposal. An account of the pilot's service was made on the BBC's "WW2 People's War" project that briefly mentions this flight, stating it was the pilot's final RAF flight.

Pilot - (Rank?) David Ray.