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ADF Aircraft Serial Numbers
RAAF Handley Page HP52 Hampden
| RAAF.Serial | Type | C/N | Fate |
| AD739 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-A. Circa 43 Next list to Russia as part of covering force for Convoy PQ18 (one after the disasterous PQ17, 5/9/42 to 01/12/42, surving Hampdens handed over to USSR Navy. |
| AD743 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-F 10/41. English Electric Built. |
| AD908 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-V 10/41. English Electric Built. |
| AD977 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-T 10/41. English Electric Built. |
| AE156 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-N 10/41. English Electric Built. |
| AE194 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-P 10/41. English Electric Built. |
| AE264 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-K. original issue 10/41. |
| AE307 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-M 10/41. English Electric Built. |
| AE430 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-M. Took off at 16:52 on 30/11/41 and was lost on either to 30/11/41 or 01/12/41 on a raid to Hamburg. All the crew are buried in Kiel including; Sgt L G Manning, Sgt A H Gee and Sgt E Waller. |
| AE436 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control. Then 144 Sqn RAF. The Lincolnshire Air Museum at East Kirkby is restoring Hampden AE436 PL-J, recovered from a force landing at Tsatsa, Sweden, on 5-Sep-1942, during a transit flight to Afrikanda, 111 miles south of Murmansk. This aircraft is on display in a disassembled state and as of now, the cockpit section was well under active restoration in one of the workshops. |
| AT109 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-C. English Electric Built. 3/42 Forced down on Norwegian Coast crew POW. The Pilot was S/L James Catanach, DFC. He was shot following escape from Stalag Luft III (The Great Escape). He was one of "the fifty". |
| AT137 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-T. English Electric Built. 11/41 destroyed by fire 6/42 at Leuchars, Scotland. |
| AN157 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-N. shot down whilst attacking shipping off the coast of Norway 14/9/43. |
| L4038 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-R 6/39. Handley Page Built. |
| P1245 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-J 2/40. Handley Page Built. |
| P1272 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-R. Took off at 16:54 from Swinderby on 30/11/41 on a raid to Hamburg and was lost either on 31/11/41 or 01/12/41. The Crew were buried in a Cemetery in Hamburg and include; PO A G Sands RAAF, Sgt J Shannon RAAF, Sgt A C Shorey and Sgt V E Towers. |
| P1287 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-B 10/41. English Electric Built. |
| P2095 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-G. English Electric Built. |
| P2126 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-S. English Electric Built. |
| P5304 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-H 8/41. Crashed Nth Sweden 5/9/42. |
| P5315 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-K 8/41. |
| P5323 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-L 8/41. Crs Fuel exhaustion Kandalaksha USSR 5/9/42. |
| X3131 | ? | ? | Served with RAAF 455 Sqn under RAF control, coded UB-D 12/40. English Electric Built. Forced down on to the beach by Flak. |
The Author of this page is Darren Crick.
Source: Bomber Group At War (Chaz Bowyer) p41, The Hampden File p164/4. FlyPast magazine featured it in the Nov 97 issue.
Emails: Gordon Birkett, Steve Old, Derek Riley, Don Clark, Jonathan Strickland, David Fredricks, Barry Nelson.
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