Date:	Tuesday 6 February 1940
Time:
Type:	Gordon Dove
Owner/operator:	Romford Flying Club
Registration:	G-AETU
MSN:	SCB.III
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Maylands Aerodrome, Harold Hill, Romford, Essex, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Maylands Aerodrome, Essex
Destination airport:

Narrative:
First registered [C of R 7669] on 25.2.37 as G-AETU to Premier Aircraft Constructions Ltd., Maylands Aerodrome, Harold Hill, Romford, Essex. Dove G-AETU first flew on 3.3.37 from Maylands Aerodrome, Romford, with C. Oscroft at the controls. It was rapidly advertised for sale at £225, a price that included a flying course to pilot's licence standard at the Romford Flying Club (RFC), an organisation in which Chadwick and Gordon had financial interests.

Alternatively, a kit of parts was offered at £165, though no kits were sold. The first aircraft was sold to Romford Flying Club and a production line of eight aircraft was planned, though only two were completed. The two completed aircraft (G-AETU and G-AEZB) were both wrecked in flying accidents, and the third aircraft (G-AEZA) was scrapped in May 1939. Registrations G-AFAC to G-AFAG were reserved in July 1937 for a further five aircraft that were never built. Premier Aircraft Constructions went into Receivership in August 1938.

G-AETU was sold on and re-registered [C of R 7669/2] on 17.1.38 to Romford Flying Club Ltd., Maylands Aerodrome, Harold Hill, Romford, Essex

Written off (destroyed) 6.2.40 when destroyed in a hangar fire at Maylands Aerodrome, Harold Hill, Romford, Essex. Registration G-AETU belatedly cancelled by the Air Ministry post war, on 1.12.46, due to "destruction or permanent withdrawl form use of aircraft". A note on the aircraft's record card states "(Census 1946)"; which indicates that the Air Ministry were only made aware of the demise of G-AETU after a return from the last registered owners, in response to the Air Ministry's 1946 census into the existence (or not) of all UK-registered pre-war civil aircraft

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2. Grey, C.G. (1972). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938. London: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5734-4.
3. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/15-aeroplanes/79-register-gb-g-ae
4. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AETU.pdf
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A9.html
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Dove
7. http://www.nwamuseum.co.uk/AIRCRAFT%20MANUFACTURE-1.pdf

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
02-Feb-2018 20:09	Dr. John Smith	Added
02-Feb-2018 20:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
05-Feb-2018 17:23	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
26-Aug-2018 12:21	TB	Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport]
10-May-2019 20:34	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport]
06-May-2023 17:16	Nepa	Updated [[Location, Departure airport]]