ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 278154
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| Date: | Thursday 7 July 1960 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Miles M.65 Gemini 1A |
| Owner/operator: | Horace Tempest (regd. owner) |
| Registration: | G-AISM |
| MSN: | 6454 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Trevethoe Farm airstrip, Lelant, near St Ives, Cornwall -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Trevethoe Farm airstrip, Lelant, near St Ives, Cornwall |
| Confidence Rating: |  Little or no information is available |
6454: Miles M.65 Gemini 1A. First Registered (C of R 10933/1) as G-AISM to Miles Aircraft Ltd, Woodley, Reading, Berkshire 27.1.47. C of A 8966 issued 23.4.47. Registration cancelled 13.2.48 upon sale and re-registered (C of R 10933/2) on 24.3.48 to Arnold W. Sawyer, Scarrington, Nottinghamshire. C of A amended to A 2084, and C of R to R 2084/2. Registration cancelled 1.6.55 upon sale.
Re-registered (C of R R 2084/3) to Horace Tempest, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire 8.6.55 (and St Ives, Cornwall from 22.5.59).
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed at Lelant, near St Ives, Cornwall 7.7.60. Horace Tempest failed to gain sufficient altitude and crashed into trees on take-off, the first time he had flown his Gemini from his Trevethoe Farm airstrip at Lelant, near St Ives; normally he used his Miles Messenger when flying from this strip.
Registration G-AISM cancelled as PWFU ("Permanently Withdrawn From Use") on same date (7.7.60) although the Air Ministry were not notified until 14.2.64. Wings used to rebuild Messenger G-AISL in 1963.
Sources:
1. P D Stemp, 2010, The Aviation Archive of Miles Aircraft
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AISM.pdf
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1993.pdf
4. https://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/lelant/
5. G-AISM (various photos dated 1956): https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/G-AISM
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-May-2022 07:22 | Ron Averes | Added |
| 15-May-2022 08:12 | Ron Averes | Updated [Phase, Nature, Damage] |
| 15-May-2022 23:40 | Ron Averes | Updated [Operator, Source] |
| 22-Sep-2022 22:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 22-Sep-2022 22:27 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Category] |
| 22-Sep-2022 22:28 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Category] |
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