On 3 February 1940 the first German aircraft to crash on English soil in World War Two came down at a farm just outside Whitby in North Yorkshire. On the night of 8th / 9th May 1941 the crew of this aircraft had been tasked with bombing Sheffield and had set out from their base of Villacoublay. Lost crews of WW2. Registration No L6290. 70th anniversary of WW2 German plane crash near Whitby The bomber stopped just yards from the cottages at Bannial Flatt farm . Military aircraft crash sites may be recognised as archaeological sites and the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, includes within its definition of monument, ‘crashed aircraft or the remains thereof'. 2008 . More than 18,000 airmen died flying from the Yorkshire airfields, some lost on training flights, because of weather conditions or aircraft malfunction. Confused by auto headlights, fighter hits tree while attacking the airfield at RAF Elvington, crashing at Sutton upon Derwent, Yorkshire, all four KWF. The memorials here are just two of many. This area is much harder area to define than the North Yorkshire Moors area; the Moors area follows the national park boundary but with an area such as the Yorkshire Dales the national park boundary was not put near the edge of sections of high ground. Reply. Heinkel HeIII near Patrington, Hull. Pennines. Plane stalled on approach. As they approached the Yorkshire Coast the aircraft was spotted by the crew of a patrolling Defiant of 255 Squadron based at Kirton in Lindsey and was attacked. Ian D B says: October 13, 2014 at 5:39 pm Hi Joe, this is not one I have documented. 70 comments on “ RAF Crash Sites 1942 – 1945 ” Joe Lilley says: October 13, 2014 at 6:21 am A Blackburn Botha Mk1 crashed 1.5 miles North of Hooton Park Cheshire. Was … Nachtjagdgeschwader 3, becomes the last Axis aircraft to crash on British soil during World War II. 2 Killed Including Russell Charles Denny from Western Australia. Two other Ju 88s had crashed in separate incidents at 0137 and 0145 hrs. Aircraft accidents in the Central Pennines / Yorkshire Dales. The aircraft's crew of four are all accounted for and no human remains are present in the aircraft. Tagged: airfields. Aircraft crash sites in the Pennine hills away from the Peak District, covering parts of Lancashire, West & North Yorkshire, Cumbria, County Durham and Northumberland . The aircraft was on a flight from RAF Catterick, near Richmond, when in poor weather a little over 10 miles from the airfield it dived The Ministry of Defence is responsible for the investigation of all military aircraft crash sites in the United Kingdom (including those situated in UK territorial waters) and has only issued a licence for recovery of the Dornier because it is NOT a war grave. 6th November 1928 Atlas Mk.I J9043 No.26 Sqn, RAF Grinton Moor, North Yorkshire . During the Second World War, Yorkshire was home to around 40 airfields, many in the flat areas of the Vale of York.