Hawker Hart Mk.I K3864 of No.28 Elementary Flying Training School, crashed at Rushton Spencer on the 23rd May 1939.

The EFTS was one of several in the UK prior to the Second World War which was tasked with maintaining the proficiency of the RAF Volunteer Reserve. Sgt Parish, from the Macclesfield area, was a member of the RAFVR and was carrying out an Air Navigation flight from the RAF station at Meir on the southern edge of Stoke on Trent. He flew upto Ruston Spencer where he then performed some aerobatics consisting of a tight right hand turn and dive. This was for the benefit of the owners of a farm where he had camped while in the scouts. During one of the manoeuvres his aircraft struck a tree and crashed down a wooded hillside destroying the aircraft.

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