Flt. Lt. Richard Hames Younghusband
Richard Hames Younghusband was born on 12th. August 1908.
In 1938 he was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Reserve supposedly attached to 501 Squadron at RAF Filton flying Hawker Hinds but he is not recorded in the squadrons ORB for that time.
Throughout its existence, RAF Filton shared the airfield with the Bristol Aeroplane Company and it appears that Richard was flying for Bristol.
On 25th. August 1938 at 0900 hr Richard took off from Filton flying an aircraft that was very likely a Hawker PV. 4 to test a Bristol engine. The aircraft was reported by eyewitnesses to be suffering engine trouble and it crashed shortly after into a small wood at Dursley, Gloucestershire. The aircraft had hit a tree and was totally wrecked. Richard was removed from the aircraft and carried on piece of farm fencing as a makeshift stretcher to an ambulance. In Gloucester hospital it was found that he had a fractured skull and thigh and internal injuries. He would also lose a leg. He left hospital in March 1939, seven months after his accident.
During the 2nd. World War Richard was flying for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) ferrying aircraft from factories and maintenance units to RAF airfields.
By 1953 Richard was flying from RAF Langham, near Holt, Norfolk, an airfield that was administered by Marshalls of Cambridge as part of their Flying School.
On the 32rd. July 1953 fly as a civilian pilot in Spitfire LF. XVI, TB 747 for No.2 Civil Anti-aircraft Cooperation Unit, Richard died, he never recovered from a drive and hit the ground. He was 45 years old.
The Langham Dome museum on the former grounds of RAF Langham was gifted a replica Spitfire, made by GB Replicas, that was surplus to the requirements of the RAF Museum at Hendon in London.
The Spitfire was installed at Langham on 20th. August 2020.
It stands in commemoration of Flt. Lt. Richard Hames Younghusband.
Flt. Lt. Richard Hames Younghusband
Richard Hames Younghusband was born on 12th. August 1908.
In 1938 he was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force Reserve supposedly attached to 501 Squadron at RAF Filton flying Hawker Hinds but he is not recorded in the squadrons ORB for that time.
Throughout its existence, RAF Filton shared the airfield with the Bristol Aeroplane Company and it appears that Richard was flying for Bristol.
On 25th. August 1938 at 0900 hr Richard took off from Filton flying an aircraft that was very likely a Hawker PV. 4 to test a Bristol engine. The aircraft was reported by eyewitnesses to be suffering engine trouble and it crashed shortly after into a small wood at Dursley, Gloucestershire. The aircraft had hit a tree and was totally wrecked. Richard was removed from the aircraft and carried on piece of farm fencing as a makeshift stretcher to an ambulance. In Gloucester hospital it was found that he had a fractured skull and thigh and internal injuries. He would also lose a leg. He left hospital in March 1939, seven months after his accident.
During the 2nd. World War Richard was flying for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) ferrying aircraft from factories and maintenance units to RAF airfields.
By 1953 Richard was flying from RAF Langham, near Holt, Norfolk, an airfield that was administered by Marshalls of Cambridge as part of their Flying School.
On the 32rd. July 1953 fly as a civilian pilot in Spitfire LF. XVI, TB 747 for No.2 Civil Anti-aircraft Cooperation Unit, Richard died, he never recovered from a drive and hit the ground. He was 45 years old.
The Langham Dome museum on the former grounds of RAF Langham was gifted a replica Spitfire, made by GB Replicas, that was surplus to the requirements of the RAF Museum at Hendon in London.
The Spitfire was installed at Langham on 20th. August 2020.
It stands in commemoration of Flt. Lt. Richard Hames Younghusband.