Blackburn Skua L2929 crashed near High Bentham while being ferried by No.4 Ferry Pilots' Pool from Hullavington to Donbristle on the 12th September 1940. 

While in the High Bentham area the aircraft's engine failed leaving the pilot with no choice but to abandon the aircraft, it ploughed into open moorland spreading wreckage over a wide area.

Very little remains where the aircraft impacted, the engine was once in some reeds nearby but this was recovered during the 1980s by the now defunct Pennine Aviation Museum, they also recovered the aircraft's undercarriage and parts of the wing folding mechanism.

Scattered about are pieces like the ones shown here.

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