Date:	Sunday 10 February 1985
Time:	16:02 LT
Type:	Cessna F172N Skyhawk II (Reims)
Owner/operator:	Lobby Ticketing Ltd
Registration:	G-BFOW
MSN:	1643
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Category:	Accident
Location:	About 13.3 miles NW of Alderney, Channel Islands -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Shoreham (EGKA)
Destination airport:	Jersey (EGJJ)
Investigating agency:	AIB
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
Sent out a Mayday call at 15:54 hours when close to Alderney, Channel Islands. Never seen again. Over a year later, a fishing boat recovered wreckage from the aircraft from the sea bed (engine with the propellor still attached) 12 miles south of Swanage, Dorset.

Registration G-BFOW cancelled as destroyed 11.7.1988.

Shoreham Airport Sussex - The Story of Britain's Oldest Licensed Airfield.
Compiled by T M A Webb and Dennis L Bird.
Pub. Cirrus Associates, 1996
ISBN 0 9515598 2 6
page 85
British Civil Aircraft Register 1919 - 1999
Compiled by Michael Austen
Air Britain (Historians) Ltd, 1999
ISBN 0 85130 281 5
- coptercrazy
- Air-Britain: European Registers Handbook 2010
http://www.caa.co.uk/aircraft-registration/
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/Reims%20Cessna%20F172N,%20G-BFOW%20%2001-87.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2008 11:10	ASN archive	Added
23-Jan-2010 00:28	John Baker	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
26-Sep-2011 06:36	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative]
09-Nov-2012 15:05	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative]
09-Nov-2012 15:10	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]