Date:	Monday 1 July 1957
Time:
Type:	de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk 35
Owner/operator:	Trans-World Engineering Inc.
Registration:	N9919F
MSN:	ex.VR801
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Calabasas, California -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Test
Departure airport:	Burbank airfield, CA
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Mosquito N9919F (ex.VR801) Richard E. Loomis/ Trans World Engineering Corp/Trans World Aero Surveys, Pasadena CA 17.5.55/57
(del. to USA, Hurn to Prestwick 6.6.55, camera gear installed at Oxnard CA 55, flew in allover blue scheme with yellow fuselage flash) crashed dest. by fire, Calabasas CA while on a test flight from Burbank. 01/07/1957
(Loomis convicted of insurance fraud for sabotaging the aircraft to claim the insured value) and this was confirmed on appeal, but the case for murder was not proven at the original trial and he was not convicted of this charge.
Crew:
Mr. James Keith GIBBS (pilot) killed

1.http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH98%20prodn%20list.txt
2.http://www.goodall.com.au/warbirds-directory-v6/de-havilland.pdf
3.Saskatoon Star-Phoenix 2 July 1957, p14
4.https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2d/207/229.html

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Oct-2013 15:32	Nepa	Added
21-Jul-2015 09:04	Nepa	Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative]
10-Oct-2015 20:23	Nepa	Updated [Location]
01-Jan-2018 19:32	TB	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
07-Feb-2019 21:14	Nepa	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator]
10-Apr-2019 11:36	paulmcmillan	Updated [Source, Narrative]
30-Dec-2019 21:08	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator]
23-Jan-2020 20:25	Nepa	Updated [Registration, Cn, Narrative, Operator]
26-Sep-2021 10:42	Nepa	Updated [Source, Narrative, Operator]
18-Apr-2022 19:03	TB	Updated [Operator, Location]
18-Jun-2022 12:01	Nepa	Updated [Location, Narrative, Operator]