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Date: | Monday 24 May 1937 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.60 Moth |
Owner/operator: | Kuala Lumpur Flying Club |
Registration: | VR-RAB |
MSN: | 431 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Sungai Besi Air Force Base, Kuala Lumpur -
Malaysia
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Sungai Besi Air Force Base, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya |
Destination airport: | Sungai Besi Air Force Base, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya |
Narrative:DH.60X Moth VR-RAB: Written off (damaged beyond economic repair) 24.5.37: The pilot P. K. Hodgson was performing a solo training flight out from Sungai Besi Airport, Kuala Lumpur. On approach, the single engine aircraft crashed for unknown reasons; reportedly "Hit power lines and crashed into a railway cutting". The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot was seriously injured. Registration VR-RAB belatedly cancelled 30.9.38 as 'withdrawn from use'.
Sources:
1.
https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-EBTI.pdf 2.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_VR-R.html 3.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_VR-S.html 4.
https://baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh60-moth-sungai-besi 5.
http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh60.pdf 6.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p004.html 7. As G-EBTI:
https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-great-bitain-registers-g-eb/g-eb-part-2?highlight=WyJnLWVieWgiXQ== 8. As VR-RAB:
https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-other-registers/vo-vp-vr?highlight=WyJ2ci1yYWIiXQ== 9.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1980.pdf 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMAF_Kuala_Lumpur_Air_Base
History of this aircraft
DH.60X [Cirrus II] first registered G-EBTI [C of R 1456] 10.8.27 to E L Mill, Auckland, New Zealand [but based at Stag Lane, Edgware, Middlesex]. C of A 1193 issued 26.8.27. Used by F Douglas Mill [registered as owner in error?] to gain his Commercial Pilots Licence (prior to his return to New Zealand to form DH distributor, Air Transport & Survey Co). Intended to be taken to New Zealand in Nov 1927 (and painted in Air Transport & Survey Co titles in anticipation of this) but replaced by c/no. 500 (which became G-NZAT later ZK-AAT)
Re-registered [C of R 1534] 2.12.27 to Capt. C Stewart Burt, Stag Lane, Edgware, Middlesex. Sold May 1929 and re-registered [C of R 2072] in June 1929 to Lt Col George LP Henderson, t/a Henderson Flying School, Croydon. Sold on [via Malcolm Campbell [London] 1927 Ltd] in August 1929 and re-registered [C of R 2306] in Oct 1929 to The Brooklands School of Flying Ltd, Brooklands, West Byfleet, Surrey. Re-registered [C of R 2345] in Dec 1929 to Sydney P Jackson, Castle Bromwich. Advertised for sale in March 1930. After being sold on, re-registered [C of R 2946] 5.12.30 to Arthur L Birch, c/o Phillips & Powis Aircraft (Reading) Ltd, Woodley, Reading, Berkshire.
Taken by Arthur Birch to Johore early 1931 and used by the Royal Singapore Flying Club [Fitted with Cirrus III engine]. Sold by Birch to Kuala Lumpur Flying Club in Sep 1933. Registration VR-SAD apparently allocated in Sep 1934 but not taken up.
UK Registration G-EBTI cancelled 26.10.34 as sold abroad. Already re-registered VR-RAB 22.8.34 to Kuala Lumpur Flying Club, Kuala Lumpur. Fitted with spare Gipsy I engine.
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Jan-2014 22:21 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
22-Aug-2017 10:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Source] |
16-Oct-2023 13:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [[Time, Source]] |
29-Mar-2024 10:16 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |