ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 19471
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| Date: | Thursday 16 May 1957 |
| Time: | 21:00 |
| Type: | Taylorcraft Auster Plus D |
| Owner/operator: | Merseyside & North Wales Flying Club |
| Registration: | G-AHAK |
| MSN: | 177 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Garston, near Liverpool Airport, Speke, Liverpool -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Liverpool Airport, Speke, Liverpool (LPL/EGGP) |
| Liverpool Airport, Speke, Liverpool (EGGP) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Built as Taylorcraft Auster Model D LB318: Delivered direct to 654 Squadron on 27/9/ 42, but transferred to 652 Squadron on 8/12/42. On 20/3/43, it passed to 656 Squadron, but re-allotted to 20 MU RAF Aston Down on 29/4/43. On 27/5/43, it was released for 22 EFTS at Cambridge, where it appears to have remained until 5/8/44 when returned to 20 MU Aston Down for storage. Finally, on 12/1/46 LB318 was sold to Taylorcraft and later civilianised as G-AHAK on 1/2/46. Between 1/2/46 and 19/6/57, G-AHAK was sold on and re-registered six times, as follows...
01/02/1946: First civilian registered (C of R 9866/1; C of A 7426) to Taylorcraft Auster Ltd., Britannia Works, Thurmaston. Leicestershire (aircraft based at Rearsby Aerodrome, Leicestershire).
02/04/1946: Sold on and re-registered (both on the same day) (C of R 9866/2) to Kennings Ltd., Queen Street, Derby (aircraft based at Burnaston Airfield, Derby)
12/04/1946: Registration cancelled/lapsed upon sale
19/03/1947: Re-registered (C of R 9866/3) to Air Taxis (Croydon) Ltd., Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey
21/01/1948: Registration cancelled/lapsed. Possibly not due to resale, as not re-registered for five years. One source (see link #2) states "G-AHAK Taylorcraft Plus D arrived by road dismantled 8.53, never flew with Liverpool Flying School".
21/09/1953: Re-registered (C of R R.864/4) to Wright Aviation Services Ltd., Liverpool Airport, Speke, Liverpool. (Wright Aviation Services Ltd went bankrupt in 11.53)
16/02/1954: Registration cancelled lapsed upon resale
18/02/1954; Re-registered (C of R R.864/5) to Dragon Airways Ltd., Liverpool Airport, Speke, Liverpool
12/10/1955: According to once source (see link #2) - "G-AHAK Taylorcraft Plus D In Service On Formation of company. Rebuilt during spring 1954. Stayed at Speke (in hangar 39) when Dragon Airways Ltd moved out". (Dragon Airways were bought out by Hunting-Clan, and the centre of operations were moved to Newcastle (Woolsington), along with entire Dragon Airways Fleet except G-AHAK). Registration cancelled/lapsed upon sale on 12/10/1955
14/10/1955: Re-registered (C of R R/864/6) to John Green, Watertree, Liverpool. Based at Liverpool Airport, Speke, and operated by the Merseyside & North Wales Flying Club
16/05/1957: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed in Garston following take-off from Speke: crash landed into the Fire Service’s hangar, just inside the airport boundary mid-evening (at about 9pm) of 16th May 1957 following take-off from Runway 08. (Sources differ as to whether the aircraft actually came down inside the airfield boundary or into the grounds of the Bryant & May Match factory, just outside the airfield perimeter)
19/06/1957: Registration G-AHAK cancelled by the Secretary of State, Air Ministry as "destroyed"
Sources:
1. Auster Quarterly Vol.1 No.2 (Summer 1975): http://www.austerhg.org/auster_mags/Auster%20Quarterly%20Volume%201%20Number%202.pdf
2. http://derbosoft.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=history&action=print&thread=6920
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AHAK-1.pdf
4. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AHAK-2.pdf
5. http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=70
6. https://es-la.facebook.com/527056354004973/posts/skyblazers-de-chaumont-air-base-au-meeting-de-liverpool-1956ssafa-air-display-21/1160255997351669/
7. https://www.ukairfieldguide.net/airfields/Speke-Airport
8. The Friends of Liverpool Airport Newsletter Spring 2012: http://www.fola.org.uk/0927/120.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 09-Dec-2012 11:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 11-Dec-2012 13:10 | cbfkoh | Updated [Total occupants, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 06-Aug-2020 21:06 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Aug-2020 21:09 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Narrative] |
| 06-Aug-2020 21:10 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 06-Aug-2020 21:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Aug-2020 21:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 07-Aug-2020 13:38 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Nov-2020 21:50 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Source, Narrative] |
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