The partially restored fuselage of Handley-Page Hampden P1344, shot down over Russia while on duties in defence of the Arctic convoys #warbirds #ww2 #ww2history #handleypage #hampden | Daniel J Wheatcroft

Visit the RAF Museum Cosford this week and view progress on the Handley Page Hampden currently undergoing restoration in our Conservation Centre. The Museum’s Hampden, serial number P1344, is one of only three examples of the type remaining and was recovered from a crash site in northern Russia in 1991 and acquired by the RAF Museum. The night it was shot down (5 September 1942), the aircraft was one of nine aircraft lost out of 32 that departed Sumburgh, Shetland Islands, heading to northern Ru

WD –Hadley Page Hamden P1344 (RAF Museum), Then & Now Report and Images by George J Land Handley Page Hampden TB Mk.1, P1344, PL-K, No 144 Squadron RAF P1344 initially entered RAF service with No. 14 Operational Training Unit at RAD Cottesmore, Bomber Command in late 1939, before being modified to a torpedo bomber (TB Mk.I) variant in 1942 for RAF Coastal Command and subsequently joined No.144 Squadron RAF N.18 Group RAF Leuchers, Coastal Command. Handley Page Hampden TB.Mk.1 P1344, along with P