ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 19507
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| Date: | Saturday 30 August 1952 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Tipsy B |
| Owner/operator: | Brian Allen Aviation Ltd |
| Registration: | G-AFCM |
| MSN: | 503 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Liverpool Road, Slough Trading Estate, Slough, Berkshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Slough, Berkshire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
First flown 18/10/37 as OO-DOS. First registered as G-AFCM to Brian Allen Aviation Ltd, Croydon 3/11/37 (C of R 8169). Location changed at unknown date to "London Airport, Feltham". Registration cancelled 1/12/46 by Secretary of State for Air as "withdrawn from use"
Destroyed by fire whilst in storage in Slough Berkshire. According to some sources G-AFCM was put into storage in September 1939 (when all civilian flying was prohibited due to the outbreak of war) and stayed there until the winter of 1951-52. It was then deliberately burnt sometime later: "There were at least five Tipsy airframes stored for the duration of WW 2 at the Slough factory. Three survived to become G-AISA/B/C, the two others did not.
You can imagine the scenario in 1946. Damp, complicated wooden aeroplane. Probably with casein adhesive gently mouldering. Coldest winter in history. No fuel for heating. The airframes were regarded as far more useful as firewood, than as aeroplanes!"
Tipsy Aircraft Ltd were based at Liverpool Road, on the Slough Trading Estate in Slough, Berkshire, and finally closed down in 1952, burning Trainers 'GF and 'RT at their Slough factory in the process, as part of the clear out". It seems unlikely that these three airframes were complete or for use as anything other than a source of parts.
Sources:
1. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/15-aeroplanes/80-register-gb-g-af
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AFCM.pdf
3. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?94496-CLW-Curlew
4. https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/88107-tipsys.html
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A10.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 29-May-2008 00:28 | JINX | Updated |
| 01-Jan-2012 20:02 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Jan-2012 20:45 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Mar-2013 22:32 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Mar-2013 22:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 07-Feb-2018 20:12 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Source] |
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