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Specification chart for Spitfire Blue Peter
Diagram marked blue for items recovered form crash site; and green for those on display at exhibition. -
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Article – Search for ‘Blue Peter’ by Ralph J Davidson
Pages 36-43, unknown publicationTags aviation -
Crew from TV programme Blue Peter filming wreckage of Spitfire AD540 Blue Peter
From the right : Charles and Carol Cathcart, Anne Rutherford, Anna Campbell, Emma Cathcart; Fiona, Alison and Shona Campbell.Tags aviation -
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Spitfire AD540 Blue Peter’s wreckage, landing
Blue Peter’s Merlin engine takes to the skies again.Tags aviation -
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Memorial to Spitfire Blue Peter
NEAR THIS SPOT ON 23RD MAY
1942 SPITFIRE Mk VB AD 540 BLUE
PETER CRASHED WHILST ON
CONVOY DUTIES IN THE CLYDE
ESTUARY P.O. DAVID HUNTER
BLAIR BEING KILLED IN THE
ACCIDENT. THE AIRCRAFT LAY
HIDDEN FOR 51 YRS TO THE DAY
IT CRASHED UNTIL DISCOVERED BY
RALPH DAVIDSON OF THE D.G.A.G.
ON 23RD MAY 1993.Tags aviation -
Memorial to Spitfire Blue Peter
NEAR THIS SPOT ON 23RD MAY
1942 SPITFIRE Mk VB AD 540 BLUE
PETER CRASHED WHILST ON
CONVOY DUTIES IN THE CLYDE
ESTUARY P.O. DAVID HUNTER
BLAIR BEING KILLED IN THE
ACCIDENT. THE AIRCRAFT LAY
HIDDEN FOR 51 YRS TO THE DAY
IT CRASHED UNTIL DISCOVERED BY
RALPH DAVIDSON OF THE D.G.A.G.
ON 23RD MAY 1993.Tags aviation -
Memorial to Spitfire Blue Peter
NEAR THIS SPOT ON 23RD MAY
1942 SPITFIRE Mk VB AD 540 BLUE
PETER CRASHED WHILST ON
CONVOY DUTIES IN THE CLYDE
ESTUARY P.O. DAVID HUNTER
BLAIR BEING KILLED IN THE
ACCIDENT. THE AIRCRAFT LAY
HIDDEN FOR 51 YRS TO THE DAY
IT CRASHED UNTIL DISCOVERED BY
RALPH DAVIDSON OF THE D.G.A.G.
ON 23RD MAY 1993Tags aviation -
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Certificate of Authenticity from Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum for Propeller Splinter
This is to certify that this Propeller Splinter is a genuine part from Merlin 45 engine, serial No.279813 which powered Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB Serial No.AD 540 ‘Blue Peter’.Tags aviation -
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Spitfire flying over during the Memorial Service on 28 August 1993 for David Hunter Blair the pilot of AD540
The Landranger map Sheet 77 O.S grid reference for the plaque to David is 603993 and for the crash site 604004.Tags aviation -
Remains of the Spitfire airlifted by the Navy to Drumjohn on July 12th 1993.
They can now be seen at the Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum, see Newsletter 23.Tags aviation -
The remains of Spitfire AD540 Blue Peter
Found buried on the back of Cairnsmore of Carsphairn on May 23 1993, 51 years to the day when the plane crashed.Tags aviation -
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Memorial to David Hunter Blair
NEAR THIS SPOT ON 23RD
MAY 1942 PILOT OFFICER
DAVID HUNTER BLAIR
AGED 19 - A SCOT FROM
AYRSHIRE WAS MORTALLY
WOUNDED AFTER
PARACHUTING FROM
SPITFIRE Mk VB AD 540
BLUE PETER HE DIED THAT
OTHERS MAY LIVE
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Newspaper clipping – Final landing for crashed Spitfire at Dumfries museum
Dumfries and Galloway Standard and AdvertiserTags aviation -
Memorial to David Hunter Blair
NEAR THIS SPOT ON 23RD
MAY 1942 PILOT OFFICER
DAVID HUNTER BLAIR
AGED 19 - A SCOT FROM
AYRSHIRE WAS MORTALLY
WOUNDED AFTER
PARACHUTING FROM
SPITFIRE Mk VB AD 540
BLUE PETER HE DIED THAT
OTHERS MAY LIVE
LEST WE FORGET 1993Tags aviation -
Memorial to David Hunter Blair
NEAR THIS SPOT ON 23RD
MAY 1942 PILOT OFFICER
DAVID HUNTER BLAIR
AGED 19 - A SCOT FROM
AYRSHIRE WAS MORTALLY
WOUNDED AFTER
PARACHUTING FROM
SPITFIRE Mk VB AD 540
BLUE PETER HE DIED THAT
OTHERS MAY LIVE
LEST WE FORGET 1993Tags aviation -
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Memorial to Spitfire Blue Peter
NEAR THIS SPOT ON 23RD MAY
1942 SPITFIRE Mk VB AD 540 BLUE
PETER CRASHED WHILST ON
CONVOY DUTIES IN THE CLYDE
ESTUARY P.O. DAVID HUNTER
BLAIR BEING KILLED IN THE
ACCIDENT. THE AIRCRAFT LAY
HIDDEN FOR 51 YRS TO THE DAY
IT CRASHED UNTIL DISCOVERED BY
RALPH DAVIDSON OF THE D.G.A.G.
ON 23RD MAY 1993Tags aviation -
Spitfire Blue Peter crash site and memorial
NEAR THIS SPOT ON 23RD MAY
1942 SPITFIRE Mk VB AD 540 BLUE
PETER CRASHED WHILST ON
CONVOY DUTIES IN THE CLYDE
ESTUARY P.O. DAVID HUNTER
BLAIR BEING KILLED IN THE
ACCIDENT. THE AIRCRAFT LAY
HIDDEN FOR 51 YRS TO THE DAY
IT CRASHED UNTIL DISCOVERED BY
RALPH DAVIDSON OF THE D.G.A.G.
ON 23RD MAY 1993.Tags aviation -
