A Hawker Audax (serial number K7381) of No. 1 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School, Royal Air Force, based at Hatfield, crashed into a residential area in the Edmonton region of London.
Babdown was built in 1940 as a relief landing ground (RLG) with two grass runways and a flare path for No. 9 Service Flying Training School initially flying Hawker Audaxes before changing to Miles Masters and Hawker Hurricanes.
In 1935 he was posted to No. 33 Squadron RAF in Egypt, equipped with the Hawker Hart.
Hawker Hurricane | Billy Hart | Hawker Typhoon | Hawker Siddeley | Hawker Hunter | Mickey Hart | Gary Hart | Hart to Hart | Melissa Joan Hart | Lorenz Hart | Moss Hart | White Hart Lane | Rodgers and Hart | Hawker Siddeley Harrier | Bret Hart | Thomas Hart Benton | Miranda Hart | Harry Hawker | Adam Hart-Davis | Hawker Tempest | Hawker Hart | Hart Crane | Carey Hart | William Hart | Jimmy Hart | Hawker Sea Fury | Hart House | Angie Hart | Alvin Youngblood Hart | Will Cullen Hart |
No. 296 Squadron was formed at Ringway Airport near Manchester on 25 January 1942 from the Glider Exercise Unit as an airborne forces unit, equipped with obsolete Hawker Hectors and Hawker Harts, and moved to RAF Netheravon to concentrate on glider training.