ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 274170
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| Date: | Thursday 27 September 1956 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Miles M.38 Messenger 4A |
| Owner/operator: | Steel Brothers (Tanganyika Forests) Ltd |
| Registration: | VP-KJL |
| MSN: | 4695 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Rondo Plateau, Lindi Region, Northern Mtwara -
 Tanzania
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Rondo Plateau, Lindi Region, Northern Mtwara, Tanzania |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
c/no. 4695: Miles M.38 Messenger Mk.l (145 hp DH Gipsy Major ID) - third production airframe, built at Woodley, Reading, Berkshire, and first flown by Flight Lt H V Kennedy in military markings as RH371 on 1.1.45. Delivered to Allied Expeditionary Air Force Communications Squadron, Gatwick 4.1.45 and seen painted silver there 2.9.45. To BAFO Communications Wing; to Miles Aircraft Ltd 3.10.46 and seen at Woodley 8.1.47; to 51 MU Lichfield for storage 9.4.47.
Struck off charge when sold to W H Leadbetter 26.5.48; registered G-ALAR 28.5.48 with C of R No. 12377 (although Series was not given) to W H Leadbetter; Four Oaks, Warwichshire. C of A No.10396 issued 30.6.49 to T W Leadbetter, Elmdon, Birmingham. Registration cancelled on sale abroad to Kenya in 24.10.51.
Re-registered 25.10.51 to H P Jennings, Mombasa, Kenya. On 2.12.51 the port main plane was badly damaged when a steamroller ran into it (!) while parked at Entebbe Airport, Uganda. Presumably repaired.
Cancelled 8.1.52 on re-registration in Kenya as VP-KJL to same owner. To Steel Brothers (Tanganyika Forests) Ltd., Lindi by 15.4.52.
Reported Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed 27.9.56 at Rondo, Tanzania; The Rondo Plateau, also known as the Muera Plateau, is a high and extensive massif in the Lindi Region and northern Mtwara Region of southeastern of Tanzania
Returned to England and taken to Old Warden where it was seen dismantled by 1958. A file note dated 12.10.58 records that it was returned to UK but scrapped prior to UK registration. Still at Old Warden 22.7.61; fuselage acquired by Midland Aircraft Preservation Society for their Midland Air Museum by 8.71 but what happened to the wings is unknown.
For disposal by 5.92 and sold to Ken Fern for possible restoration to flying condition at the Vintage & Rotary Wing Collection, Stoke-on-Trent, arriving 25.5.92; purchased by The Miles Aircraft Collection in 5.94, fuselage and flying control surfaces taken to West Sussex for storage. Registration G-ALAR restored 25.2.2011 to Charles William Peter Turner, Snitterford, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Sources:
1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/vp-kaa.pdf
2. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_2001.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ALAR.pdf
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondo_Plateau
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Jan-2022 02:04 | Ron Averes | Added |
| 27-Sep-2022 18:55 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 02-Oct-2022 18:04 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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