Hooton Park Trust, Ellesmere Port: museum exhibit, recovered Spitfire Mk I cockpit wreckage (1)
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Hooton Park Trust, Ellesmere Port: museum exhibit, recovered Spitfire Mk I cockpit wreckage (1)
Image: © Mike Searle Taken: 2 Aug 2018
On 11 Dec 1940 P/O A R Ross of 610 (County of Cheshire) Auxiliary Squadron based at RAF Hooton Park, was engaged in a training flight instructing a new recruit to the squadron at RAF Acklington in Northumberland. Tragically, the pupil Sgt H B McGregor of Glasgow aged 24 flying Spitfire P9451, accidentally flew into Ross's aircraft, slicing the tail off at low level. Ross no doubt due to his greater experience, managed to bail out successfully, but Sgt McGregor was killed. After crashing into flooded bogs, it was not until 1952 that Sgt McGregor's remains were recovered from his crashed Spitfire, whilst the recovery of the aircraft's mostly intact front cockpit and engine section was not undertaken until 48 years later in 2000. The reassembled cockpit still displays dials and instruments that can still be read, and is now on display in the museum. Image
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