RAF Pocklington and Local Area Losses Aircraft Accidents & Losses at and near RAF Pocklington in WW2 The Halifax HR792 shown here made an emergency landing on the Isle of Lewis in WW2 and has been restored by the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington where it is now on permanent display. Although HR792 was not an RAF Pocklington aircraft, it is representative of the type flown from RAF Pocklington by No. 405 Squadron from April 1942 and later No. 102 Squadron to May 1945. Evident is the radome for the H2S radar scanner mounted under the central fuselage; also the much-revised fin & rudder shape which transformed handling and thus flight safety (see Part 1). © Pocklington & District Local History Group Aircraft Accidents & Losses at and near RAF Pocklington in WW2 Introduction © Copyright notice The article on the WW2 airfield at RAF Pocklington on the Pocklington & District Local This article is copyright the Pocklington & Local District History Group and no part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including History Group website included details of several aircraft accidents and losses within the airfield photo-copying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in boundary and the adjacent Pocklington parish. writing from Andrew Sefton. Contact Email:
[email protected] Nevertheless, there were well over 100 aircraft losses during WW2 at Pocklington airfield and within the local area primarily covered by the History Group (including the neighbouring airfields at RAF Elvington, Full Sutton, Holme-on-Spalding Moor – colloquially abbreviated throughout to ‘HOSM’ – and Melbourne), primarily involving the Halifax bomber, and this companion article sets out to record them.