ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 205032
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| Date: | Thursday 16 February 1939 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | BA Swallow 2 |
| Owner/operator: | George Dawson |
| Registration: | G-AEIG |
| MSN: | 429 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Cotgrave, near Tollerton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Tollerton, Nottinghamshire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
First registered [C of R 6998] on 11.5.36 as G-AEIG to British Aircraft Manufacturing Company Ltd., Heston Aerodrome, Heston, Middlesex. C of A 5493 issued May 1936. Sold on and re-registered to George Dawson, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. Sold on and re-registered to M.P. Forte & J.S.F Hood, RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. Re-registered to J.S.F. Hood (only) RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. Sold on 24.8.37 [C of R 8086] and bought back by previous owner George Dawson, Lincoln (aircraft based at Skegness, Lincolnshire and/or Tollerton, Nottinghamshire).
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 16.2.39 when collided BA Swallow 2 G-AFER over Cotgrave, near Tollerton, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire. Jack Edwin Walker (aged 28) - the pilot of G-AFER - was killed. Captain A F Muir and pupil pilot under instruction Mr. Barrow unhurt in G-AEIG (which landed safely, having sustained damage).
Nothing further is known about the fate of G-AEIG; it is presumed to have been withdrawn from use after this incident, and certainly would have been withdrawn from use and stored at Tollerton, Nottinghamshire and/or Skegness, Lincolnshire from 4.9.39, when all private civilian flying was prohibited due to the outbreak of war. It is presumed that G-AEIG was scrapped at some point between 4.9.39 and 8.5.45.
Registration G-AEIG belatedly cancelled by the Air Ministry post war, on 2.11.45, due to "destruction or permanent withdrawl form use of aircraft". A note on the aircraft's record card states "(Census 1945)"; which indicates that the Air Ministry were only made aware of the demise of G-AEIG after a return from the last registered owners, in response to the Air Ministry's 1945 census into the existence (or not) of all UK-registered pre-war civil aircraft
Sources:
1. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/15-aeroplanes/79-register-gb-g-ae
2. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AEIG.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A8.html
4. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1939.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-Jan-2018 22:58 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 24-Jan-2018 23:00 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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