Halifax (Total: 6,178, Canadian: 151, Group 150)
Handley Page Halifax
The Handley Page Halifax is a British Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War. It was developed by Handley Page to the same specification as the contemporary twin-engine Avro Manchester.
The Halifax has its origins in the twin-engine HP56 proposal of the late 1930s, produced in response to the British Air Ministry's Specification P.13/36 for a capable medium bomber for "world-wide use." The HP56 was ordered as a backup to the Avro 679, both aircraft being designed to use the underperforming Rolls-Royce Vulture engine. The Handley Page design was altered at the Ministry to a four-engine arrangement powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine; the rival Avro 679 was produced as the twin-engine Avro Manchester which, while regarded as unsuccessful mainly due to the Vulture engine, was a direct predecessor of the famed Avro Lancaster. Both the Lancaster and the Halifax would emerge as capable four-engined strategic bombers, thousands of which would be built and operated by the RAF and several other services during the War.
On 25 October 1939, the Halifax performed its maiden flight, and it entered service with the RAF on 13 November 1940. It quickly became a major component of Bomber Command, performing routine strategic bombing missions against the Axis Powers, many of them at night. Arthur Harris, the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Bomber Command, described the Halifax as inferior to the rival Lancaster (in part due to its smaller payload) though this opinion was not shared by many of the crews that flew it, particularly for the MkIII variant. Nevertheless, production of the Halifax continued until April 1945. During their service with Bomber Command, Halifaxes flew a total of 82,773 operations and dropped 224,207 tons of bombs, while 1,833 aircraft were lost. The Halifax was also flown in large numbers by other Allied and Commonwealth nations, such as the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Free French Air Force and Polish forces. Wikipedia
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Wikipedia Halifax BomberHalifax B.Mk.II serial DG219
s/n DG219
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DG 219
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 460; 1656
Crashed and burnt in circuit at Broadway Stanforth, near Lindholme, probably after a stall 27.5.44460 Conversion flight/1656 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.II serial DG220
s/n DG220
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DG 220
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 405;78;76;1658;1663
Converted to 3651MUnits 78/76/ 76 Conversion Flight/1658 Heavy Conversion Unit/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.II serial DG221
s/n DG221
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DG 221
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Undercarriage collapsed on landing at Riccall 30.11.4378/ Aircraft and Armament Experimental Establishment/78/ 1658 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.II serial DG222
s/n DG222
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DG 222
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 10
Failed to Return, Torino, 12.12.42Unit 10
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.II serial DG223
s/n DG223
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DG 223
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed and burned at Bilborough, near Lissett, due to undercarriage retraction failure, aircraft had just taken off for ops, Mannheim 6.12.42Unit 158
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.II serial DG224
s/n DG224
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DG 224
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 405
Operated by No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF, when lost on 8 June 1942. On mission to Essen, came down 11 kilometres north-west of centre of Cologne. 7 crew killed, one PoW.last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Essen Germany 1942-06-08 to 1942-06-09
405 (B) Sqn (RCAF) Pocklington
Operated by No. 405 (B) Squadron, RCAF, when lost on 8 June 1942. Halifax aircraft DG 224 was carrying bombs, camera, and leaflets when it was shot down, on mission to Essen, came down 11 kilometres north-west of centre of Cologne. 7 crew killed, one PoW.
1942-June-09 KIA RAFVR Reginald Paul Healey 2022-05-31 1942-June-09 KIA RAF Leslie Heycock 2022-05-31
1942-June-09 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Lloyd George Higginson 2022-11-22 1942-June-09 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ernest Norman Jefferies 2022-07-07 1942-June-09 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Alan James McEwen 2022-07-07 1942-June-09 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Edmund Thomas McGill 2022-07-07 1942-June-09 KIA RCAF Sergeant William John Pethybridge 2022-07-07 1942-June-09 PoW RAF Derek Robert Riches 2022-05-31 Halifax B.Mk.II serial DG225
s/n DG225
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DG 225
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 158
Ditched in sea on return from ops Bremen, 1 mile off of Scarborough, Yorks, short of fuel 26.6.42Unit 158
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.II serial DG226
s/n DG226
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DG 226
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 35;10;158;1658;1652
Port outer engine caught fire after takeoff from Marston Moor, Aircraft turned over and dived into the ground from 1000 feet near Wetherby golf course, Yorks and burnt 24.8.44Units 35/10 Conversion flight/10/158/1658 Heavy Conversion flight/1652 Heavy Conversion flight
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.II serial DG227
s/n DG227
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DG 227
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 35; 158
Failed to Return, Duisberg 14.7.42Unit 35/158
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.II serial DG228
s/n DG228
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DG 228
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 405
Failed to Return, Krefeld 3.10.42Unit 405
last update: 2025-February-05
Bombing Krefeld Germany 1942-10-02 to 1942-10-03
405 (B) Sqn (RCAF) Topcliffe
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus) Halifax II aircraft DG 228 LQ-H shot down over Holland by flak of the Marine-Flak-Abteilung 813 (Hoek van Holland), 2/MAA 205 Küstenbatterie Brandenburg and the 1 & 2/Reserve, crashing on Vredebest Farm near Noordwijkerhout (Zuid Holland) 16 km SSW of Haarlem, Netherlands. (aviation-safety.net) The bomber crashed into a farmhouse, killing Alida Hogervorst and injuring her mother Adriana Hogervorst and her brother Wim Hogervorst, who later died of his injuries (www.basher82.nl). 1942-October-03 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Maxwell Ben-Hertz 2025-01-13 1942-October-03 KIA RCAF Sergeant David George Hackett 2025-01-13 1942-October-03 KIA RAF Sergeant Sidney Messham 2025-01-13
1942-October-03 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1 Edward Warren Murphy 2025-01-13 1942-October-03 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Charles Joseph Neubert 2025-01-13
1942-October-03 KIA RAAF Sergeant George Henry Shannon 2025-01-13 1942-October-03 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Lionel Harry Williams 2025-01-13 Halifax B.Mk.II serial DG229
s/n DG229
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DG 229
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Undercarriage collapsed on landing at Carnaby, 5.7.44103/103 conversion flight/1656 Heavy conversion unit/1662HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.II serial DG230
s/n DG230
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DG 230
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed into a pond in the grounds of Green Hammerton Hotel, near york, after taking off from Marston moor 14.11.43Unit 10/ 1652 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG231
s/n DG231
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DG 231
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408; 1663
Operated by No. 408 (B) Squadron, RCAF, late 1942. Crash at Fention Farm near Haverfordwest, Pembs and burnt after catching fire while on cross country 20.5.44408/1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG232
s/n DG232
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DG 232
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
Written off after following heavy landing while on circuits and landings 4.5.441664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG233
s/n DG233
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DG 233
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408;1659;408;518;517
Operated by No. 408 (B) Squadron, RCAF, late 1942. Struck off Record 15.6.45Units 408/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/408/518/517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG234
s/n DG234
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DG 234
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408;1659;1663;76
Landed off runway at Holme-On-Spalding Moor in poor visibility and hit Halifax DK205, 20.11.43Unit 408/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1663HCU/76/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG235
s/n DG235
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DG 235
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408;1659;408;RR;1657
Struck of Charge 1.11.45Unit 408/1659 Heavy Conversion Unit/408/Rolls Royce/1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG236
s/n DG236
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DG 236
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408; 1663; 1667
Abandonned after engine fire, aircraft crashed at Holton, Lincs 29.5.44Units 408/1663 Heavy conversion unit/1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG237
s/n DG237
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DG 237
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408; 518; 1674
Struck off Charge 5.10.44Units 408/518/1674 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG238
s/n DG238
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DG 238
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408
Stalled, spun into ground and burnt, 5 miles east of Croft during fighter affiliation 9.11.42Unit 408
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG239
s/n DG239
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DG 239
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408;1659;1664
Struck off Charge 1.11.45408/1659 Heavy conversion Unit/1664 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG240
s/n DG240
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DG 240
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408; 518; 517
Struck off Charge (possibly after accident?) 31.5.45408/518/517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG241
s/n DG241
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DG 241
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408;1668;1660;1666;1667
Struck off Charge 1.11.45408/1668 Heavy conversion Unit/1660HCU/1666HCU/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG242
s/n DG242
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DG 242
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408
Struck off Charge 28.4.45Unit 408
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG243
s/n DG243
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DG 243
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408;1668;1654;1662;1667
Struck off Charge 1.11.45408/1668 Heavy Conversion Unit/1654HCU/1662HCU/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG244
s/n DG244
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DG 244
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed to Return, Special Operation Executive Vega 111, 20.3.43Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG245
s/n DG245
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DG 245
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 161
Failed to Return, Special Operation Executive, Iridium, 15.3.43Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG246
s/n DG246
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DG 246
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408; 1663
Struck off Charge 17.10.45408/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG247
s/n DG247
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DG 247
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408; 1664
Groundlooped on landing at Dishforth 8.2.44Unit 408/ 1664 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG248
s/n DG248
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DG 248
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408; 1663
Groundlooped on take-off from Rufforth and undercarriage collapsed 29.12.43Unit 408/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG249
s/n DG249
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DG 249
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408; Rotol; 1652
Struck off Charge 22.10.46Unit 408/Rotol/1652 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG250
s/n DG250
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DG 250
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 77/518/1674 HCU
SOC 20.7.45last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG251
s/n DG251
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DG 251
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Converted to 5204MUnit 77/518/517/1674 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG252
s/n DG252
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DG 252
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 138
Missing on Operations 20.9.43Unit 138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG253
s/n DG253
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DG 253
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408;138
Operated by No. 408 (B) Squadron, RCAF, late 1942. Approached Tempsford too fast after ops and overshot into bushes. 18.8.43Unit 408/138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG270
s/n DG270
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DG 270
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Undercarriage collapsed on heavy landing at Blyton, 18.3.44Units 77/1662
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG271
s/n DG271
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DG 271
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408; 138
Groundlooped on take-off at Tangmere and wingtip caught the ground 4.2.43Unit 408/138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG272
s/n DG272
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DG 272
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 30.1.44Unit 138/161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG273
s/n DG273
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DG 273
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 18.12.44Unit 77
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG274
s/n DG274
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DG 274
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck of Charge 22.12.44Unit 77/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG275
s/n DG275
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DG 275
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 77; 1660
Disintegrated in air near Bardney 1.10.4377/1660 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG276
s/n DG276
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DG 276
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Overshot Rufforth, groundlooped, undercarriage collapsed and aircraft caught fire 29.5.44Unit 77/ 1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG277
s/n DG277
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DG 277
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 408; 1663
Crashed in bad visibility nearLong Marston, Yorks on approach to rufforth after night bombing exercise 15.8.44408/1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG278
s/n DG278
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DG 278
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 77; 1664
Force-landed at Gale Farm 3 miles southwest of Pocklington, non ops, 23.2.4477/1664 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG279
s/n DG279
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DG 279
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 20.7.45Unit 77/518/1674 Heavy conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG280
s/n DG280
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DG 280
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
Struck off Charge 2.6.45Units 1664 Heavy conversion unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG281
s/n DG281
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DG 281
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 26.7.44Unit Controller of Research and Development West Freugh
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG282
s/n DG282
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DG 282
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 295; 1664
Crashed in circuit 1/2 mile south of runway #3, Dishforth due to reduced visibility caused by smoke from train. 2.12.43295/1664 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Conversion 1943-12-01 to 1943-12-02
1664 (B) HCU (RCAF) Croft
On 1943-12-02, Squadron Leader A. Ross Dawson, an Engineering Officer with 427 Sqn at Leeming, wrote in his diary:
"We were supposed to be on again tonight . . . It was scrubbed about 4 o'clock so since some of the gang were going up to a party tonight at Croft I went with them. Met up with all the boys at 1664 again & had a swell time. . . At the party I met Mary again . . It was spoiled somewhat at 10:00 o'clock by a crash. I heard this kite coming in for a landing & flying very low. All of a sudden there was a terrific crash & it pranged just about a hundred yards from the Mess â€" hit a tree and burst into flames. We all went out to see it but it was pretty gruesome & some of the girls were sick so we all went back in again & tried to get the party started again. Five were killed & two were still alive when they dragged them out although they were pretty badly burned. Mary, whose brother-in-law was killed in a crash over at Middleton, started to cry & make a fuss but soon recovered. I caught the taxi to town at 11:15 after detouring into the field around the wreck. It was strewn all over the road and was still burning."
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG283
s/n DG283
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DG 283
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed at Fawley, Henley-On-Thames non-ops 15.3.43Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG284
s/n DG284
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DG 284
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed out of control after spiral dive at Thorne, Yorks 14.5.44161/1660 Heavy conversion Unit/1656 Heavy Conversion Unit/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG285
s/n DG285
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DG 285
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 138; 161
Crashed and burnt, 6 miles south of Rennes, France while on ops 16.1.43 units 138/161.From aviation Safety Network:
Further information: Operation Ker was an SIS Op. and according to the Provisional Operation Report prepared for the aircraft's return, it was to drop a parcel on at 47 42 05N, 01 49 25W, which is just south of a village called Sion-les-Mines (Loire-Atlantique), some 16 km W of Chateaubriant in Northern France. There were no co-ordinates given for CRAB 6, a container drop. The French underground found the aircraft burned out, south of Rennes. Seven bodies were found in the wreckage, all were interred in the Eastern Communal Cemetery, Rennes on 17th January 1943.
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG286
s/n DG286
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DG 286
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Tire burst on take-off from Tempsford causing groundloop and undercarriage to collapse. 23.5.44Units 138/161/138
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG287
s/n DG287
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DG 287
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Diverted in bad weather but abandonned due to fuel shortage, aircraft crashed at Swallow, Lincs, and burnt 8.1.44Units 138/1660 Heavy conversion Unit/1654HCU/1656HCU/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG288
s/n DG288
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DG 288
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Stalled and crashed, undercarriage collapsing on landing at Tiree, pilot had short legs and therefor not full rudder control 17.11.43Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG289
s/n DG289
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DG 289
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 22.12.44Unit 518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG290
s/n DG290
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DG 290
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped and undercarriage collapsed on landing at Blyton 7.1.44Unit 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG291
s/n DG291
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DG 291
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Overshot at Radlett after delivery flight 9.6.44Unit 518/517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG292
s/n DG292
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DG 292
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
Struck off Charge 9.6.45Unit 1664 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG293
s/n DG293
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DG 293
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Overshot at landing at Sandtoftand hit dispersal 25.3.44Units 1663 Heavy Conversion Unit/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG294
s/n DG294
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DG 294
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck of Charge 31.8.43 (Given Cat.E. on 24.8.43 possibly related to accident suffered by DG394) Cat E is a damage category known as a write-off.Unit 1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG295
s/n DG295
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DG 295
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
Crashed on bombing range east of Strensall, York, while on exercise 16.3.441664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-March-16 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Joseph Louis Philippe Denis Carrier 2024-10-21 1944-March-16 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Joseph Jacques Omer Cournoyer 2025-03-01 1944-March-16 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Francis Roger Dionne 2024-10-21 1944-March-16 KIFA RCAF Warrant Officer 1 Alphonse Jean-Paul Normandeau 2024-10-21 1944-March-16 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Romeo Arthur Pelletier 2024-10-21 1944-March-16 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Albin Walld 2024-10-21 Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG296
s/n DG296
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DG 296
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 431;1664;1666
Struck off Charge 1.11.451664 Heavy Conversion Unit/431/1664HCU/1666HCU/
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG297
s/n DG297
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DG 297
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Collided with Halifax BB374 and force-landed at Broadwell 29.4.441663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG298
s/n DG298
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DG 298
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 1.11.451667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG299
s/n DG299
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DG 299
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 14.5.4548 Maintenance Unit/ 33 Maintenance Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG300
s/n DG300
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DG 300
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crash-landed at Springfield Farm, 1 mile northwest of Pocklington in bad approach 2.6.43Unit 295/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG301
s/n DG301
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DG 301
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664; 1662
Struck off charge 1.11.45Units 1664 Heavy Conversion Unit/1662HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG302
s/n DG302
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DG 302
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck of charge 10.12.46Unit 518/517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG303
s/n DG303
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DG 303
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 1.11.45Units 295/298/1665 heavy Conversion Unit/296
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG304
s/n DG304
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DG 304
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Propellor blade disintegrated in flight damging fuselage. circuits and landings at Aldergrove 19.4.45 Struck off charge 30.8.45Units 460/518/1674 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG305
s/n DG305
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DG 305
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped at Sandtoft and undercarriage collapsed 27.3.44Units 1661 Heavy conversion Unit/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG306
s/n DG306
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DG 306
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 18.11.46Units 518/517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG307
s/n DG307
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DG 307
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at Sandtoft and undercarriage collapsed 31.3.441668 Heavy conversion Unit/1654HCU/1656HCU/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG308
s/n DG308
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DG 308
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1659; 1664
Overshot on landing at Dishforth and undercarriage collapsed 30.1.441659 Heavy Conversion Unit/1664HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG309
s/n DG309
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DG 309
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on take-off at Sandtoft and undercarriage collapsed1667 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG310
s/n DG310
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DG 310
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck of Charge 1.11.451667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG311
s/n DG311
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 311
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge after accident 16.3.44Units 518/517
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG312
s/n DG312
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 312
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at Rufforth and undercarriage collapsed 7.11.43Units 295/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG313
s/n DG313
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 313
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 1.11.45Units 1660 Heavy Conversion Unit/1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG314
s/n DG314
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 314
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Port tire burst on take-off from Sandtoft, groundlooped and undercarriage collapsed 19.2.441652 Heavy Conversion Unit/1660HCU/1654HCU/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG315
s/n DG315
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 315
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 1.11.45Units 1652 Heavy Conversion Unit/1660HCU/ 1662HCU/ 1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG316
s/n DG316
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 316
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed into the sea 1/2 mile from the end of the North/South runway at Tiree after take-off 4.12.43Units 138/518
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG317
s/n DG317
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 317
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Hit by Halifax DG347 while taxiing at Sandtoft 28.4.44Units 1660 Heavy conversion Unit/1654 Heavy conversion Unit/1662 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B. Mk. V serial DG333
s/n DG333
Rootes Securities
DG 333
Known Units: 1664
With No. 1664 Heavy Conversion Unit, 6 Group, when it crashed on 20 October 1943.last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG338
s/n DG338
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 338
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Tire burst on take-off from Sandtoft, groundlooped and undercarriage collapsed 30.6.44Units 1660 Heavy Conversion Unit/1654HCU/1656HCU/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG339
s/n DG339
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 339
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
On 1943-09-09, Squadron Leader A. Ross Dawson, a Technical Officer at Croft, wrote in his diary:
On September 9, during a party celebrating W/C Clark's DFC award, "About 10:30pm the phone rang & it was another prang off the runway â€" a bad one this time . . . The W/C & I jumped in his car right away and raced down to the Aerodrome in the pitch black. It was B for Bear (DG339). According to the pilot's story . . . the S.O (starboard outside) engine started to vibrate . . . and shake the whole aircraft. He was about 100 [feet] at the time . . . made a low circuit, got sort of panicky & brought her in for a belly landing . . . he headed for the grass and just missed a couple of parked aircraft. . . At the first smack he busted up all four props & tore off a few engine cowlings & radiators, then the stbd outer engine fell out on the ground bashing big hole in the wing in passing. This threw the nose up which promptly tore off the tail wheel . . . & incidentally broke the kite's back just aft of the T.E. of the wings. The nose came down again & the port outer engine fell out and she finally came to rest with debris strewn all over the field for about two hundred yards behind it. What a mess. Cat E definitely & fortunately no one was badly hurt."
Diary of A Ross Dawson, courtesy CWM
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG340
s/n DG340
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 340
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664; 1667
Struck off Charge 26.7.45Overseas Aircraft Preparation Unit/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit/1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG341
s/n DG341
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 341
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
Groundlooped on landing at Croft and undercarriage collapsed 27.6.431664 Heavy Conversion Unit
On 1943-06-27, Squadron Leader A. Ross Dawson, a Technical Officer with 1664 HCU at Croft, wrote in his diary:
"Well we had our first prang today. Nobody hurt but it sure made a mess of the kite. It was a beautiful warm day and at 11:00 hrs this morning, P for Peter was making a regular landing. He started to swerve a little & in correcting for it the pupil and instructor were sort of fighting the controls and they ran off the runway, did a big sweep back across the runway & into a very violent ground loop. Both undercarriages were folded up sideways & were pushed into the wings when it came down on its belly the port wing & port tail fin scraped the ground, the port outer engine fell out of its mounting head-first on to the ground & the tail gave such a swing when she turned so sharply that it broke its back just aft of the L.E. & major spar. A Cat E with a vengeance. One wing was still overlapping the runway so we had to start getting it cleared right away. A lot of our crash equipment isn't here yet so we borrowed some lifting bags from Middleton & some pipe lines from Leeming, came back after lunch and started in. First we picked up the loose engine & carted it off to workshops, then with a little lift under each wing with lifting bags we hooked a bowser . . . to each u/c in turn & pulled them away from the wreckage. Then with a bowser to anchor the tail we started the slow process of small lifts, building up supports & then more lifts until about 10 o'clock at night we got one 4 wheel bogey under the stbd. wing root. It has it laid down [in standard procedures] that they are to go under the engine nacelle but I got the brilliant idea to put them in the new locations & it worked very well. We got the other side up by 10:30 & had her wheeled away to a dispersal by 11:00 o'clock at night after 12 hrs. solid work. We had our meals carted out by truck & were quite satisfied with the job. Now we should be able to get a few spares anyway."
1943-06-27 Croft DG341 Flight Lieutenant Ross Dawson 2nd from left
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG342
s/n DG342
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 342
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
On 1943-09-08, Squadron Leader A. Ross Dawson, a Technical Officer with 1664 HCU at Croft, wrote in his diary:
"Q for Queenie DG 342 swerved on landing & tore out the stbd u/c [under carriage] on the ground loop. That seems to be the favourite method around here. It's a cat AC with stbd u/c wing, stbd outer engine, 2 stbd props & the stbd tail fin & rudder all bashed up".
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG343
s/n DG343
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 343
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 295; 1664
Crashed 3 miles south of Middleton, Sandberge, Co. Durham and burnt 20.10.43Units 295/Croft/1664 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG344
s/n DG344
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 344
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 20.7.451667 heavy conversion unit/518/517/520/1674HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG345
s/n DG345
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 345
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at Sandtoft, hit halifax EB194 and undercarriage collapsed 6.6.441667 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG346
s/n DG346
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 346
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
Struck off Charge 1.11.451664 Heavy Conversion Unit/1 Ferry Unit/48 Maintenance Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG347
s/n DG347
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 347
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Hit by Halifax DG 317 which was taxiing at Sandtoft 28.4.441667 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG348
s/n DG348
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 348
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1664
Swung and Groundlooped on landing at Dishforth and undercarriage collapsed 20.7.441664 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG349
s/n DG349
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 349
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Missing on cross country training flight 28.1.44518/Meteorological Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG350
s/n DG350
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 350
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped at Holmesley South and undercarriage collapsed 11.5.43Unit 295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG351
s/n DG351
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 351
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Overshot Belton on three engines and force landed 13.4.441660 Heavy conversion Unit/1654HCU/1656HCU/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG352
s/n DG352
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 352
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
swung on approach to Rufforth and struck a tree 19.4.431663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG353
s/n DG353
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 353
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Undercarriage collapsed on landing at Rufforth 13.4.44Units 76/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG354
s/n DG354
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 354
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on take-off from Blida for ops and undercarriage collapsed 21.9.43Overseas Aircraft Preparation Unit/ 301 Ferry Transfer Unit/1 Oversea Aircraft Delivery Unit/ Mediterranean Air Command
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG355
s/n DG355
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 355
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Undercarriage collapsed on take-off from Sandtoft 13.4.44Units 76/1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG356
s/n DG356
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 356
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at rufforth and undercarriage collapsed 25.4.431663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG357
s/n DG357
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 357
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 28.9.44Overseas Aircraft Preparation Unit/301 Ferry Transfer Unit/ 1575 flight/ 624/148
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG358
s/n DG358
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 358
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Control lost in storm; aircraft crashed at Bwich-y-ssundel, Wales, 23.1.44Units 1660 Heavy conversion Unit/1654HCU/1656HCU/1677HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG359
s/n DG359
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 359
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 1.11.45Units 1660 Heavy conversion Unit/1654hcu/1656HCU/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG360
s/n DG360
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 360
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on take-off at rufforth, braked and undercarriage collapsed 10.8.44Unit 1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG361
s/n DG361
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 361
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434;1664
Struck off charge 1.11.45Units 434/1664 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG362
s/n DG362
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 362
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on take-off in crosswind at Swinderbyand undercarriage torn off. 24.3.431660 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG363
s/n DG363
R
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 363
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 427;428;1664
Operated by No. 428 (B) Squadron, RCAF, coded "NA*R". Caught fire at 1500 fee, stalled off steep turn and crashed into the sea 1/2 mile off Scarborough, Yorks, 7.8.44Unit 427/1664Heavy conversion Unit/428/1664HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-August-07 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Vernon Edward Clark 2024-02-25 1944-August-07 KIFA RCAF Sergeant John William Ellis 2022-01-31 1944-August-07 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Alexander Thomas Gorman 2021-08-07 1944-August-07 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Leslie Arthur Green 2021-08-07 1944-August-07 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Archibald Stewart McTavish 2021-08-17 1944-August-07 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Gwynfryn Morgan 2021-09-23 1944-August-07 KIFA RCAF Sergeant William Lewis Southwick 2021-07-23 Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG384
s/n DG384
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 384
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 1.11.45Units 295/298/1665 Heavy conversion Unit/297
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG385
s/n DG385
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 385
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 434;1664
Groundlooped during three engined landing at Dishforth and undercarriage collapsed 19.2.44Unit 434/1664 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG386
s/n DG386
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 386
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crash-landed at Epworth, Lincs, after engine failure 8.4.441660 Heavy Conversion Unit/1654HCU/1656HCU/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG387
s/n DG387
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 387
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off chage 23.2.45Units 295/298/644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG388
s/n DG388
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 388
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 295; 298; 1664
Struck off charge 1.11.45295/298/1664 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG389
s/n DG389
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 389
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Power lost on take-off from Rufforth, crashed landed near base and burnt. 19.7.431663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG390
s/n DG390
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 390
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 295
Crashed and burned 2 miles northeast of Sopley, Hants, due to engine failure. 16.5.43Unit 295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG391
s/n DG391
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 391
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 295
Missing in transit from UK to Gibralter 21.7.43Unit 295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG392
s/n DG392
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 392
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 21.2.45Unit 295/298/644
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG393
s/n DG393
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 393
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 295
Crashed on approach to Rabat-Sale after ferry flight. 22.8.43Unit 295
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG394
s/n DG394
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 394
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on take-off from Rufforth, spun around and underacrriage collapsed. 24.8.431663 Heavy conversion Unit/76/1663 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG395
s/n DG395
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 395
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed and burned 2 miles east of Thorne, Yorks, after take-off from Sandtoft 26.6.441662 Heavy Conversion Unit/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG396
s/n DG396
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 396
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 1.4.45Units 295/148
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG397
s/n DG397
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 397
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 1.11.461662 Heavy conversion Unit/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG398
s/n DG398
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 398
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 1.11.451663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG399
s/n DG399
m/d H.P.57
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 399
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: RCAF (Canada)
Delivered to Canada as production model by No. 1 Ferry Unit, RAF. Used as teaching aid at the Flight Engineers School at St. Thomas, Ontario. Scrapped at nearby Aylmer, Ontario in 1947, scrap metal shipped to the US by railway.Units 1663 Heavy conversion Unit/1 Oversea aircraft Preparation Unit/1 Ferry Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
1944-July-17 Taken on Strength CA not flown, Instructional only. 2020-06-13
1947-March-28 Struck off Strength CA 2020-06-13
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG400
s/n DG400
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 400
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Undercarriage collapsed on landing at Holme-On-Spalding Moor, 18.9.43Unit 1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG401
s/n DG401
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 401
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on three-engined landing at Pocklington and undercarriage collapsed 8.2.441663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG402
s/n DG402
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 402
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1663
Crashed and burnt on high ground at Keys Beck, 1.5 miles west of Low Hill, North York Moors while on training flight 5.9.43Unit 1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG403
s/n DG403
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 403
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Force landed near Butterwick, Lincs, after engine failure and burnt 24.5.44Units 1660 Heavy conversion Unit/1662HCU/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG404
s/n DG404
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 404
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed on high ground at Heathfield Moor, near Pately Bridge, Yorks, while on training flight 12.7.431663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG405
s/n DG405
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 405
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 161
Failed to Return, Special Operations Executive operations, Catarrh (Holland) 23.6.43Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial Dg406
s/n Dg406
Rootes Securities Ltd
Dg 406
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Failed To Return, Special Operations Executive operations, charlotte 12.6.43Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG407
s/n DG407
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 407
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on take-off from rufforth and undercarriage collapsed, burnt 2.9.441663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG408
s/n DG408
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 408
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 29.6.431663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG409
s/n DG409
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 409
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Port inside engine cut on take-off from Tempsford, groundlooped, struck object and undercarriage collapsed 13.4.43Unit 161
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG410
s/n DG410
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 410
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off Charge 2.6.45Unit 1663 Heavy conversion Unit/1667HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG411
s/n DG411
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 411
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at rufforth and undercarriage collapsed 5.8.441663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG412
s/n DG412
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 412
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Broke up after being hit by flak on opsand crashed and burnt at Langtree 4 miles southwest of Gt. Torrington, Devon 27.8.43Unit 1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG413
s/n DG413
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 413
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Starboard wing broke off at 6,000 feet during fighter affiliation sortie, crashed three miles south of Driffield, Yorks and burnt 6.4.431663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG414
s/n DG414
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 414
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed and burnt at Ackborough, Yorks, during low flying on three engines 5.7.44Units 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit/1667 HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG415
s/n DG415
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 415
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Starboard inner propellor and cowling flew off in flight, aircraft crashed and burnt at Bempton near Bridlington, Yorks 7.9.431663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG416
s/n DG416
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 416
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Overshot on landing at Rufforth, groundlooped and undercarriage collapsed 25.5.441663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG417
s/n DG417
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 417
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Crashed during cross-country on Caernarvon Mountain 3.9.441663 Heavy Conversion Unit/1656HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG418
s/n DG418
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 418
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Struck off charge 1.11.45Unit 1663 Heavy conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG419
s/n DG419
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 419
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Control lost during feathering training, aircraft crashed and burnt at Fridaythorpe 5.5.431663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG420
s/n DG420
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 420
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 76; 1663
collided with Halifax R9497 in midaircrashed and burnt at Copmanthorpe, Yorks 19.8.431663 Heavy Conversion Unit/76/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG421
s/n DG421
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 421
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing at Pocklington and undercarriage collapsed 18.6.431663 Heavy Conversion Unit/76/1663HCU
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG422
s/n DG422
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 422
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Undershot runway at Rufforth, hit ditch and undercarriage retracted 26.9.441663 Heavy Conversion Unit/76/1663 Heavy Conversion Unit
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG423
s/n DG423
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 423
Merlin XX/22
Known Units: 1663; 76
Failed to Return, Duisberg, 27.4.43 Crashed in Amsterdam1663 Heavy conversion Unit/76
last update: 2025-February-05
Halifax B.Mk.V serial DG424
s/n DG424
Rootes Securities Ltd
DG 424
Merlin XX/22
Known Units:
Groundlooped on landing and undercarriage collapsed 14.7.441656 Heavy conversion Unit/1662HCU
last update: 2025-February-05