ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 25310
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| Date: | Monday 8 July 1946 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax C.8 |
| Owner/operator: | British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) |
| Registration: | PP325 |
| MSN: | 1387 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF Aldermaston, Berkshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Accra, Ghana |
| RAF Aldermaston, Berkshire | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
In 1946, BOAC was faced with a year’s delay in deliveries of the Avro Tudor II which was intended to service the Empire routes. Consequently, they filled the gap with a batch of 12 Handley Page Halifaxes which were specially converted by Short Brothers & Harland as the HP.70 Halton. BOAC initially operated three C.Mk.VIII Halifaxes on loan from the RAF from October, 1945.
The first of these was PP325 (c/no. 1387) which was first flown at the factory at Belfast on 21st June, 1945 and then loaned, in October, 1945, to BOAC at Whitchurch, Bristol. It was operated in RAF markings as PP325 on mail services to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) starting with a proving flight on 13th October 1945 to Accra, via Rabat and Bathurst, covering 8,780 miles in 46 flying hours.
This aircraft was later transferred to the BOAC Training Unit at Aldermaston and was damaged beyond repair in a crash landing there on 8th July, 1946. It was able to survive as a ground instruction airframe (as 6007M) at the BOAC Training School at White Waltham; it was written off the BOAC books on 29th August, 1948 and scrapped
The BOAC Training HQ was based at Aldermaston Airfield, Aldermaston, Berkshire from 9 May 1946 to 1 January 1947, after which it moved to White Waltham Airfield near Maidenhead, Berkshire
Sources:
1. Speedbird: The Complete History of BOAC By Robin Higham page 401
2. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-handley-page-hp70-halifax-viii-raf-aldermaston
3. http://www.controltowers.co.uk/A/Aldermaston.htm
4. http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/boacfleetlist.pdf
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Aldermaston#Other_units_assigned
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 31-May-2010 13:10 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 06-Mar-2017 20:48 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Mar-2017 20:49 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 06-Mar-2017 20:49 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 06-May-2018 17:51 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Oct-2019 22:13 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Aug-2021 01:22 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 07-Aug-2021 01:22 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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