Forestry Memories

Investigation of Military Aircraft crash in 1945 into Culbin Forest

Investigation of Military Aircraft crash in 1945 into Culbin Forest

Date Added: 10 October 2026 Contributor: Norman Davidson Year of Photo: 1985 Picture No: 6380

This was part of an archived file box recovered from old shed store at Newton by Malcolm Hobson and Ruaridh Maxwell of Forestry and Land Scotland.

A letter to Sandy Cram, Forest District Manager at Moray, the administrative unit now covering all the forests of Laigh of Moray and more, including Culbin Forest.

Aircraft was a Vickers Armstrong, Warwick ASR -1 on a training flight from Kinloss that crashed killing the two crew members.

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Groups: Aircraft in Forestry Work, Forestry Areas, Northeast Scotland , War time constructions and defence structures in woods and forests

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