Typhoon DN365 - S.Scotland

A Hawker Typhoon similar to that which crashed above
Lochwinnoch, around 35 miles WSW of Paisley,Scotland.

Typhoon DN365 had been on a routine training exercise
on 24th January 1943, when in mist & low cloud over
the hills north of Lochwinnoch, it flew into Queenside
Hill killing the pilot.

Up until quite recently the identity of the aircraft
on Queenside hill had been a bit of a mystery, some
thinking it was a Hurricane, others thought it was a
Typhoon. On a visit to the crash site in September
2002, with a local Muirsheil Ranger, the author found
two pieces of wreckage, one was a prop & gear from
what looked to be a little large for a Hurricane, and
the other, an alloy panel which was definately from
a Hurricane.

It was in fact discovered soon after this visit, that
the panel is in fact from a Hurricane crash, but not
this one, in fact the panel had been carried to the
site by an aviation group, for the purpose of recovering
the prop` gear, but when bad weather set in, it was
abandoned and forgotten about.

Pilot of DN365. F/O Steven A.N. Gould. (K)


	Propeller & Reduction Gear from DN365.

The only piece of remaining wreckage from DN365,
though a small depression further up the hill
yeilded a 20-mm canon shell about 5 years ago.


	Reverse - Showing Reduction Gears.

Badly rusted & corroded gearing.


	Prop` Gear with a Muirsheil Ranger 2002.

Muirsheil Park Ranger Len Howcutt examines the prop`
gear from the Typhoon 59 years on.


	Red Herring!!!!

The panel from a Hurricane with an intended use of carrying
the prop` gear off the hill, enough to get any budding
aviation archeologist confused.