ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18299
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Date: | Friday 2 January 1976 |
Time: | overnight |
Type: | Auster J/1N Alpha |
Owner/operator: | Andrew Marshall Laurie McLean & Partners |
Registration: | G-AJUO |
MSN: | 2627 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Shawdene, near Newbury, Berkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Shawdene, Newbury, Berkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Destroyed 02/01/1976 after being blown into next field during severe gales whilst parked at Shawdene, near Newbury, Berkshire. According to the following extract from Auster Quarterly (Vol1 No.6) dated 1976:
"we are reminded of the disastrous period of January 1st/2nd 1976 when gales swept the country and caused havoc amongst Britain's Auster population...Just north of Newbury, at Shawdene strip, the J/1N Alpha G-AJUO was torn from its pickets and blown into an adjacent field, causing irrepairable damage to both fuselage and wings"
Registration G-AJUO cancelled by the CAA as "destroyed" on 1/3/1976
Sources:
1.
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AJUO-3.pdf 2.
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1175069/ 3.
http://austerhg.org/auster_mags/Auster%20Quarterly%20Volume%201%20Number%206.pdf 4.
http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=2509 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-May-2008 11:10 |
ASN archive |
Added |
18-May-2008 23:23 |
JINX 40 |
Updated |
05-Dec-2012 05:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
23-Sep-2014 17:01 |
TB |
Updated [Operator, Embed code, Narrative] |
06-Dec-2014 03:04 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
06-Dec-2014 03:05 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Embed code] |
21-Jul-2015 22:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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