Date:	Monday 4 November 1940
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.85 Leopard Moth
Owner/operator:	6 AACU RAF
Registration:	AW123
MSN:	7049
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Little Barrow, 4 miles ENE of Chester, Cheshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Ringway, Cheshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
c/no 7049: Registered G-ACPF 3.34 to Wrightson & Pearce, Heston. C of A 4274 issued 27.4.34. Transferred 4.34 to Wrightson Air Hire Ltd, Heston, Middlesex. Name changed 14.12.34 and re-registered [C of R 5717] 19.3.35 to Air Hire Ltd, Heston. Re-registered [C of R 8713] 19.8.38 to John J Hofer, Heston/Denham. Registration cancelled 23.6.40 as sold ('change of ownership of aircraft').

Impressed into military service as AW123 on 23.6.40 and issued to 6 AACU RAF Ringway, Cheshire

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 4.11.40 when crashed in a forced landing in bad weather at Little Barrow, 4 miles East-North-East of Chester, Cheshire. Struck off charge as Cat. E(FA) 25.11.40.

1. Royal Air Force Aircraft AA100-AZ999 (James J Haley, Air Britain 2000 p 142)
2. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/15-aeroplanes/77-register-gb-g-ac
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ACPF.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A5.html
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 29/47 (ORB (Operations Record Book)) of No. 6 A.A.C.U., Ringway and No. 6 A.A.C.U. Detachment June 1940 - November 1943): https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4099754
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow,_Cheshire

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Dec-2017 00:24	Dr. John Smith	Added
10-Mar-2019 18:36	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
22-May-2019 00:42	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
26-May-2019 08:58	stehlik49	Updated [Operator]
05-Oct-2022 22:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Category]
05-Oct-2022 22:22	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Category]