ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 28663
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| Date: | Friday 13 February 1953 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.89A Dominie |
| Owner/operator: | Aigle Azur Indochine |
| Registration: | F-BGPM |
| MSN: | 6476 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Siem Réap -
 Cambodia
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Siem Réap, Cambodia |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
c/no.6476: Taken on charge by RAF as R9548 under Contract 20916/39 at 2 E&WS Yatesbury 12.1.40; renamed 2 Signal School 26.8.40. Damaged on landing Yatesbury 9.12.42; to De Havilland for repairs 9.12.42; to 18 MU RAF Dumfries 10.3.43. To ATC Flight, Halton 18.3.43. To 1 SoTT Halton 21.3.46; coded “THA-A”. To 5 MU RAF Kemble 15.4.47 for storage and disposal.
Sold 11.3.48 to Denham Air Services. Registered G-AKVU (C of R 12255) 10.3.48 to Surrey Financial Trust Ltd, Croydon. Re-registered 19.3.48 to Aircraft & Engineering Services Ltd, Croydon. C of A 10397 issued 25.3.49. Re-registered 30.9.49 to Patrick Motors Ltd., Elmdon. Re-registered 30.5.50 to W.S. Shackleton Ltd. Re-registered 26.10.50 to Goodhew Aviation Co Ltd, Kidlington. C of A lapsed 25.5.51. Re-registered 17.3.52 to Transair Ltd, Croydon.
Registration cancelled 1.4.52 as "sold in France". Inspected at Le Bourget 25.6.52. Registered F-BGPM 25.6.52 to Aigle Azur Indochine, Hanoi.
Written off (destroyed by fire) when Port engine caught fire on start-up at Siem Reap, Cambodia 13.2.53. All five occupants were able to evacuate the cabin before the aircraft was totally destroyed by fire. Registration cancelled 17.6.53.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1980 page 58)
2. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AKVU-1.pdf
4. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AKVU-2.pdf
5. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh89a-dragon-rapide-siem-reap
6. http://antonakis.co.uk/registers/francerest/20170213.txt
7. http://aerobernie.bplaced.net/Aigle%20Azur.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 17-Mar-2010 05:19 | Cyclingbill | Updated [Aircraft type, Source] |
| 27-Dec-2011 08:45 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 19-Feb-2019 19:00 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
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