Whats in a Crash - help to id aircraft and location

[stevechch]

Morning all

Can anyone ID this photos location and type of aircraft. 

My hunch is its an RNZAF plane and location is around banks peninsular.

collection.mtghawkesbay.com/objects/98419/aircraft-upside-down-in-river 

BTW interesting site to find other RNZAF related pics

Thank you in advance

[McFly]

"Baffin crash at Pigeon Bay - Baffin upside down in Little Pigeon Bay, a row boat with two men are at right. Believed to be Pilot Officer Robert Steel Grant. - May 1939. (ALB8553836a.jpg)" (link)


(Air Force Museum Collection)


(ADF Serials Website) (link)

[davidd]

Baffin did not force land on the beach, it ditched in the bay OFF the beach. And Little Pigeon Bay is quite separate from the REAL Pigeon Bay, just a little to the west, with a low ridge terminating in a point, known as Pigeon Point (the spelling of Pidgeon Bay is incorrect). At the time, this aircraft was still marked with its Fleet Air Arm serial number, and of course it was never restored to flying condition, so the serial NZ160 was never applied. I doubt that the airframe ever ended up at Rongotai, but parts of it (including the main fuel tank) survived in a wool shed at Pigeon Bay for many years, and I was in charge of a part of the flying controls for perhaps 10 years (the athwartships steel tube which transmits both aileron and elevator commands to the aforementioned control surfaces!) I have an idea that the Baffin was brought down by a failure of the reduction gear, but have not studied the accident report. The Pilot was responsible for saving the other crew member, although both men were heavily encumbered by their winter flying suits, and Grant was very lucky to have survived. Appears to be a small wharf on left of the image.

[McFly]

There's an earlier thread (link) running on here of the restoration of S1674 (NZ160). There's also some photos of what few remains they actually started with.!

And a photo below from 2019 of the progress on the Baffin

[Dave Homewood]

It has since moved to a new location.

[planewriting]

So, referring to McFly's picture above, what is that in the shed behind the one housing the Baffin. Anson or Oxford?

[Dave Homewood]

Yes. There was an Anson (seen there in the photo) and an Oxford in that shed.