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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database
| 1944 : 2 | 1945 : 45 | 1946 : 73 | 1947 : 45 | 1948 : 3 | 1949 : 3 | 1950 : 5 | 1951 : 4 | 1952 : 5 | 1953 : 10 | 1954 : 2 | 1955 : 1 |
A total of 198 Accidents and Losses are listed.
| Date | Aircraft Type | Tail No | Pilot/Crew | Photo | Unit | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Oct 44 | Spitfire VIIIc | LV738 | W/O W F Stroud + RAF | 8 Sqn | Engine cut on approach, Crashed while trying to la | |
| 14 Nov 44 | Spitfire V | MA672 | Fg Offr S A Hussain |  | 8 Sqn | engine rough at 300' after TO, belly landed Cat E |
| 07 Jan 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | LV663 | Fg Offr Kuldip Singh Thandi |  | 8 Sqn | hit by MD332 while taxying after landing Cat E |
| 07 Jan 45 | Spitfire VIII | MD332 | | 8 Sqn | 8RIAF Collided with LV663 on landing Cox's Bazaar | |
| 11 Jan 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | LV646 | Flt Lt D E Colebroke RAF | 8 Sqn | Inadvertant wheels up landing at 'George' Nidanai | |
| 11 Jan 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | MD343 | Plt Offr E Artus RAF | 8 Sqn | heavy landing downwind at George Airstrip, Nidania | |
| 15 Jan 45 | Spitfire Vc | MA364 | Flt Lt Hrushikesh Moolgavkar |  | 4 Sqn | engine failed onTO from beach strip, landed wheels |
| 25 Jan 45 | Spitfire VIII | Fg Offr P Chuckerbutty | 8 Sqn | Crashed western side of runway hit army lorry. Pul | ||
| 01 Feb 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | JF778 | | 8 Sqn | engine cut, undershot runway, forced landing. acW/ | |
| 20 Feb 45 | Spitfire VIII | JF743 | A/Plt Offr B B Singha + |  | 151OTU | Cr on bombing range - destroyed killed. Lost contr |
| 22 Feb 45 | Spitfire VIII | JG679 | A/Plt Offr V Clowsley | 151OTU | Taxying accident - engine shock loaded. Cat A(R) | |
| 24 Mar 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | JF625 | Plt Offr S Banerji |  | 8 Sqn | engine failure at 8000 feet, forcelanding in openc |
| 05 Apr 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | Fg Offr E Artus RAF + | 8 Sqn | Dived Straight down from 10000 feet and crashed in | ||
| 05 Apr 45 | Spitfire VIII | MT964 | Flt Lt N Dugdale | 8 Sqn | Went to locate crash site of Artus. FL 1 mile away | |
| 08 Apr 45 | Spitfire VIII | Sgt Tucker + | 8 Sqn | Engine truboule. Crashed half mile trying to make | ||
| 15 Apr 45 | Spitfire VIII | Fg Offr Kuldip Singh Thandi + | | 8 Sqn | GCI Crashed fewmiles from airfield. No.3 had port | |
| 15 May 45 | Spitfire VIII | MT558 | Plt Offr J J Bouche |  | 151OTU | pulled out violently during dogfight, wrinkled fus |
| 18 May 45 | Spitfire VIII | MT725 | Plt Offr J SELESKI | 9 Sqn | Got lost on local flying practice, FL wheels up. C | |
| 23 May 45 | Spitfire VIII | MT709 | Plt Offr F S Hussain |  | 151OTU | Taxied into Hurricane BN399 at excessive speed fro |
| 24 May 45 | Spitfire VIII | NH620 | Plt Offr S Biswas |  | 9 Sqn | Starboard tyre burst on landing . Damage to prop a |
| 25 May 45 | Spitfire VIII | MA696 | Plt Offr R Khan |  | 151OTU | Faulty lowering of u/c . Collapsed and aircraft da |
| 27 May 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | JG478 | Flt Lt D M Finn RAF | 4 Sqn | Night flying, unable to locate a/f , landed on roa | |
| 04 Jun 45 | Spitfire VIII | NH623 | Fg Offr K G Raman | 9 Sqn | Port tyre burt on TO, became airborne, BL on airfi | |
| 10 Jun 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | JG171 | Plt Offr John Jasper Bouche | | 8 Sqn | Overshot landing without flaps, ran into ditch, uc |
| 11 Jun 45 | Spitfire VIII | MT840 | Fg Offr J Afridi |  | 9 Sqn | Engine fialure, force landed Cat ES, pilot serious |
| 18 Jun 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | MT966? | Plt Offr Y R Agte |  | 4 Sqn | FL half a mile from airfield on first conersion fl |
| 18 Jun 45 | Spitfire VIII | MD331 | Plt Offr Yeshwant Ramachandra Agtey | | 4 Sqn | Yelahanka - eng failure on takeoff pilot crashland |
| 28 Jun 45 | Spitfire XIVe | ?? | Plt Offr Rodney Godfrey Buchanan + | 4 Sqn | Cr in Air to ground firing range at Hollanvalli. | |
| 21 Jul 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | JG620 | Fg Offr Yeshwant Ramachandra Agtey | | 4 Sqn | tail chasing, stuck tail of JF883 (Fg Offr TN Ghad |
| 01 Aug 45 | Spitfire VIII | MT999 | Fg Offr Sardar Shah Muhammad Zahid + |  | 8 Sqn | Baled out ona supply drop E of sittang river due t |
| 03 Aug 45 | Spitfire VIII | Fg Offr R S Kalyaniwala |  | 8 Sqn | 1030 Hours Crashed at end of E-W Runway. No injuri | |
| 04 Aug 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | MT557 | Fg Offr R S Shipurkar |  | 8 Sqn | overshot landing after Ops, went into ditch after |
| 11 Sep 45 | Spitfire VIII | MT908 | Plt Offr Stuart | 151OTU | Bird Hit, Damage to radiator and underside of fuse | |
| 17 Sep 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | LV646 | Plt Offr Gladstone Herbert Snell + | 8 Sqn | No.2 in formation. Missing in Clouds - failed to r | |
| 25 Sep 45 | Spitfire VIII | MV415 | Plt Offr Bhaskar DUTT + |  | 151OTU | Mid air collision with MV415 during cross over. at |
| 25 Sep 45 | Spitfire VIII | MD326 | Plt Offr Stuart + | 151OTU | Mid air collision with MV415 during cross over. at | |
| 28 Sep 45 | Spitfire VIII | MD386 | Fg Offr Ahmed? |  | 8 Sqn | Engine cut bellylanded nr Mingladon . While on a s |
| 05 Oct 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | MV231 | Fg Offr J S Ingle |  | 9 Sqn | BL at Jhagpani, Bihar |
| 08 Oct 45 | Spitfire VIII | MT837 | Fg Offr A K S Ahmed |  | 9 Sqn | LLflying at 50 feet 75m W of Ranchi damaged by exp |
| 29 Oct 45 | Spitfire VIII | MT732 | Plt Offr S K Kaul | 151OTU | Peshawar - aircraft bl after emergency landing. Pi | |
| 08 Nov 45 | Spitfire VIII | MT839 | Plt Offr L Prince-Forster |  | 4 Sqn | Overshot ldg at Willingdon into Ditch Cat B |
| 23 Nov 45 | Spitfire VIII | JG320 | Plt Offr Siddique |  | 151OTU | Peshawar bounced on landing lost tyre uc collapse |
| 28 Nov 45 | Spitfire XIV | TZ153 | | RAF Kohat | Kohat - ac stalled on approach and landed uc colla | |
| 19 Dec 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | MD291 | Fg Offr R L Suri |  | 10 Sqn | Hit by Spitfire MV245 at Hmawbi Cat E |
| 19 Dec 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | Plt Offr Kirloskar | 10 Sqn | Lost himself between Akyab and Rangoon and FL whee | ||
| 19 Dec 45 | Spitfire VIIIc | MT878 | Plt Offr H R Chitnis |  | 10 Sqn | Damaged beyond repair in accident - Det Unknown |
| 28 Dec 45 | Spitfire VIII | Fg Offr A K Ahmed | | 4 Sqn | 16 ac returning from bombay display. Engine troubl | |
| 08 Jan 46 | Spitfire VIIIc | MD402 | Fg Offr R L Suri | | 10 Sqn | engine trouble, bl in field 19.18N 90.17E at Yedas |
| 08 Jan 46 | Spitfire XIVe | TZ156 | Plt Offr T O Wynne | 6 Sqn | became lost during Sqdn move fm Kohat to Ranchi, F | |
| 09 Jan 46 | Spitfire | Fg Offr S K Mukerjee DFC + | IAFDF | No, not quite forgotten by D. K. Mukerjee THERE ha |
Note: All the data available here is publicly available in the Gazette of India, published by the Indian Government, or from public domain sources, press releases about Awards and Right-To-Information (RTI) Requests. Additionally data shared by veterans is added to the page with permission. No data with respect to serving officers below the rank of AVM is displayed. Information in Gazette of India and Award citations and photographs as released by the Indian Air Force are the only details displayed.