Archaeology Notes

Event ID 860510

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC87NW 8006 unlocated

NLO: Strathy Point [name: NC 827 699]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

(Classified as Blackburn Buccaneer S.2: date of loss cited as 16 September 1969). XV164: this aircraft of 801 sqdn [FAA] crashed into the sea near Strathy Point. Registration: British.

(Location of loss cited as N58 40.0 W4 0.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 June 2008.