ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 19488
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| Date: | Tuesday 9 December 1941 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Taylorcraft Plus C |
| Owner/operator: | 651 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | ES957 |
| MSN: | 112 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | West Down Plantation, Tilshead, Wiltshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Old Sarum, Wiltshire (EGLS) |
Ex-G-AFUY: first civil registered as such 13/6/1939 to a Mr. Stanley Laurence of Alfreton, Derbyshire (although the aircraft was hangared at Tollerton, Nottinghamshire). C of R 9132/1, C of A 6653, delivered 5/7/39.
Impressed into military service as ES957 on 31/7/1941. Issued to 651 Squadron, RAF at Old Sarum, Wiltshire. Had only a short military life, as a few months after its impressment, ES957 crashed on 9/12/41, after it turned too steeply, stalled from 100 feet and spun into the ground at West Down Plantation, Tilshead, Wiltshire
Sources:
1. Mike Draper, Auster Quarterly, Vol 1 No 1 Spring 1975 at http://austerhg.org/auster_mags/Auster%20Quarterly%20Volume%201%20Number%201.pdf
2. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/15-aeroplanes/80-register-gb-g-af
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AFUY.pdf
4. http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A11.html
6. http://www.orpheusweb.co.uk/vicsmith/Accidents/Dec41.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 08-Dec-2012 06:36 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 10-Jan-2013 12:59 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport] |
| 29-Apr-2014 18:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Feb-2018 22:19 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Feb-2018 22:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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