Date:	Tuesday 10 July 1979
Time:	day
Type:	Alon A-2 Aircoupe
Owner/operator:	Brian William George Swann
Registration:	G-ATRY
MSN:	A-140
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Sandown Airport, Sandown, Isle of Wight -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Sandown Airport, Sandown, Isle of Wight (EGHN)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Alon A-2 Aircoupe G-ATRY: First UK civil registered (C of R R.8977/1) on 11 March 1966 to Kenneth Frederick Peter Bouling, Woodford Green, Essex. Sold on and re-registered five times, with the last owner being Brian William George Swann, of Corringham, Essex from 26 June 1978

Just three weeks later, On 10 July 1979 Alon Aircoupe G-ATRY crashed on take-off from Sandown Aerodrome, on the Isle of Wight, and was written off. Nothing seems to be recorded as to the circumstances of this or the consequences to those on board. The damaged airframe was scrapped in 1981. However presumably its owner, Brian Swann, did not trouble to notify the CAA of either event as its registration was not cancelled by the CAA until 14 July 1986, over seven years after the crash.

Trivia: G-ATRY also appears in the 1973 Film "Anything Can Happen" which was filmed at White Waltham Airfield in 1972. (Spoiler alert: The Murder victim is found dead in the cockpit of the parked G-ATRY - see link #4)

1. CAA: History of G-ATRY 1966-1977: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ATRY-1.pdf
2. CAA: History of G-ATRY 1977-1979: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ATRY-2.pdf
3. G-ATRY at Leicester (EGBG) 08 July 1979 (two days before it crashed): https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000437276.html
4. https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Anything_Can_Happen#Alon_A2_Aircoupe
5. G-ATRY at Bodmin (EGLA) 15 September 1976: https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000828988.html
6. G-ATRY at Coventry in November 1978: https://www.airteamimages.com/alon-a-2-aircoupe_G-ATRY_-private_126235_large.html
7. G-ATRY at Biggin Hill (EGKB) 14 May 1967: https://www.airhistory.net/photo/240384/G-ATRY
8. G-ATRY at Biggin Hill (EGKB) 20 May 1978: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1066519
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERCO_Ercoupe#Other_production
10. European Ercoupe Newsletter 40: http://www.pivotal.co.uk/ercoupe/ercoupe-site/EEN/EEN40/EEN40.html
11. https://www.pprune.org/private-flying/635457-fifty-four-years-flying.html#post10884708

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
23-Nov-2020 23:07	Dr. John Smith	Added
23-Nov-2020 23:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
23-Nov-2020 23:08	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]