Battle of Britain at Home Day -
Middleton St. George 17/09/1949

The static park mainly consisted of training aircraft from the Air Navigation School who had been in residence sine moving from Bishops Court in October 1947.

During the shows finale dummy paratroopers were dropped from several of the based Wellingtons. Tragically for those in NC430 one of the parachutes fouled the tailplane, jamming the elevators which resulted in the aircraft diving out of control into the ground. All six on board were killed.

f/s Serial Code Type Unit Comments
VR248 FAFE Prentice T.1 RAF College, Cranwell  
s VS278 FAFR Prentice T.1 RAF College, Cranwell  
s FT215 FABN Harvard T.2B RAF College, Cranwell  
s VW422 FMKD Meteor T.7 203AFS, Driffield  
s RR308 FMOA Mosquito T.3 204AFS, Brize Norton  
s SL574 FJWF Spitfire LF.16E Central Gunnery School, Leconfield  
s EM617 FJUB Martinet TT.1 Central Gunnery School, Leconfield  
s NM409 RAOM Oxford T.1 608Sqn, Middleton St. George  
s SX591 NF-Z Lincoln B.2 138Sqn, Wyton  
s TG563 Z Hastings C.1 138Sqn, Topcliffe  
s DE378 FFM-Z Tiger Moth T.2 2ANS, Middleton St. George  
s PK407 RAO-P Spitfire F.22 608Sqn, Middleton St. George  
s NC898 FFOD Wellington T.10 2ANS  
s NC425 FFOF Wellington T.10 2ANS  
s RP343 FFOG Wellington T.10 2ANS  
s/f NC430 FFOJ Wellington T.10 2ANS  
s LN608 FFOM Wellington T.10 2ANS  
s NA827 FFOQ Wellington T.10 2ANS  
s NA829 FFOS Wellington T.10 2ANS  
s VV320 FFPM Anson T.21 2ANS  
s VV241 FFPS Anson T.21 2ANS  
f KF308 FAAV Harvard T.2B RAF College, Cranwell  
f VT267   Meteor F.4 226OCU  
f     3 x Hasting C.1   Probably from Topcliffe
f     6 x Lincoln B.2   From 83Sqn and 97Sqn

The letter in the first column denotes whether the aircraft participated in the (F)lying display, was (S)tatic, on the (D)ump or was guarding the (G)ate