Avro Anson Mk.I N9853 of No.16 FTS crashed on Edale Moor, Kinder Scout, 11th December 1944 while flying from RAF Newton to Millom.

The pilot was flying a number of the staff from the No.16 (Polish) Flying Training School base at Newton in Nottinghamshire to RAF Millom on the Cumbrian coast. While in cloud the aircraft struck the ground on Edale Moor and over turned. four of those onboard received minor injuries but none were seriously injured, after they were led off the hill they were transferred to the RAF Hospital at Wilmslow for treatment before being returned to Newton.

After the crash the wreckage was broken up, later in 1955 after a request from the recently formed Peak District National Park the crash sites on Kinder and the surrounding area were again visited by an RAF recovery team, from No.34 MU at Stoke Heath in Shropshire, they spent much of that summer cutting up and disposing of wreckage. This is the area where the aircraft came to rest and was later broken up on.

Most of the wreckage from the aircraft after bring cut up was dumped in a very boggy watercourse near the summit of Edale Moor.

The remains of both of the cheetah radial engines along with many other small fragments of metal and wood can be found in the gully.

This photo from 2009 shows the upper of the two engines, rolled slightly to one side from the earlier photo.

Above is a photograph of the second engine.

The second engine has also remained in roughly the same location over the years, though it is now forming a barrier across the gully.

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