5 AUGUST 1945
CRASH OF A BEAUFORT
1 MILE NE OF LOWOOD

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Bristol Beaufort

On 5 August 1945, RAAF Beaufort A9-492, crashed on take off 1 mile north east of Lowood airfield, in southern Queensland.

NOTE:- The above information was passed on to me by Ross McNeill (RossMcN@aol.com) of Worcestershire, UK, who is a  researcher specialising in sea losses of Allied aircraft 1939-45.  His Beaufort data comes from the RAF 800 movement cards held at the RAF Museum, Hendon. Ross spent a few months transcribing the info in about 1997.

I also received information on the above crash from a list of aircraft crashes compiled by Bruce Stewart from a series of books called "Aircraft in Australian Service" by Stewart Wilson.

REFERENCE BOOK

"Aircraft and Markings of the RAAF 1939 - 1945"
By Geoffrey Pentland

Heaps of WW2 books available at Amazon.com

This page first produced 25 April 1999

This page last updated 04 April 2002