bomber prototype, J9052, modified as a naval fleet spotter-cum-fighter Hawker Osprey to Specification O.22/26, returned to Hawker after trials, is wrecked this date at Brooklands in take off accident with crossed aileron controls. Pilot Gerry Sayer survives, Orders for 133 are placed, in four Marks, serving in operational units until May 1939, as well as small orders for Portugal, Spain and Sweden. 22 May Two Consolidated PT-3 trainers, of the 53d School Squadron, collide in mid-air near March Field, California, causing one to crash, killing one crew. "Ralph A. Murphy, second lieutenant of the air corps stationed at March field, [sic] and Cadet Lawrence Welch, student pilot, seriously hurt yesterday (22 May) when the army training plane in which they were riding crashed at the Riverside county [sic] air base yesterday. Lieutenant Murphy died while arrangements were being made to rush him by air to the Letterman hospital in San Francisco. During a training flight the wing of another airplane touched Murphy's ship, a training type biplane, and it nose-dived to earth from 500 feet. Lieutenant Murphy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Murphy of Kansas City. He was a graduate of the University of Missouri and entered the air service several year ago at Brooks field, [sic] San Antonio. The student pilot's home address is East Chicago, Ind." Murphy and Welch were flying in PT-3, 28-230, when they were struck by PT-3, 28-251, flown by Lewis J. Connors, 1¾ mi SE of March Field. 27 May Second prototype, of three, Gloster Gorcocks, J7502, experimental single-seat, single-bay biplane interceptor, first delivered to the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1928, written off in a landing crash at Farnborough this date. 25 September Douglas O-38B, 31-427, piloted by Lt. Robert Richard, collides in midair with another plane in a flight of three from March Field, Riverside, California, to Crissy Field, San Francisco. Richard and observer Pvt. Ralph Farrington bail out as the plane breaks up and are rescued by the other plane in the collision, undamaged, which lands safely 15 mi SE of Mendota, California. The remaining two planes reach San Francisco without incident. 9 October U.S. Navy Keystone PK-1 flying boat, BuNo A-8516, is forced down in heavy seas and sinks. 19 October Sole Lockheed-Detroit YP-24, 32–320, crashes during tests at Wright Field, Ohio. During evaluation flight, landing gear extension system fails with gear only partly deployed when in-cockpit crank