Proctor at RAF Clifton.
The detailed regard this incident are somewhat vague but the Proctor caught fire during engine start up on the
29th of July 1943, the aircraft burnt out and was destroyed. It was being used by Clifton's Station flight within 33 Group
Army Co-Op Command.
The aircraft was ordered as Vega Gull and was built to contract 975967/39 by Percival Aircraft Ltd at Luton but came off
the production line as a Proctor 1. It was delivered to MU storage in June 1940. It's life thereafter is somewhat unclear but it
is known to have been issued initially to Woolsington Station Flt.(date not known), then after a period of MU storage issued to
No.2 SS (Signals School) at Yatebury which was re-designated No.2 Radio School on 1st January 1943. On an unspecified date later in 1943,
again after a period of MU storage, it was issued to Clifton Station Flt. and was written off with Cat.E2/Burnt damage on 29th July 1943.
Pilot - (Probably) None.