ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 299540
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| Date: | Tuesday 30 November 1971 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | De Havilland DH.94 Moth Minor |
| Owner/operator: | Rene Argot & Denise Verhaeghe |
| Registration: | F-PFYR |
| MSN: | 94010 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Calais–Dunkerque Airport, 30 Avenue Henri Sainsard, Marck -
 France
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Calais–Dunkerque Airport (CQF/LFAC) |
c/no. 94010 (Gipsy Minor #20010): Registered G-AFNF (C of R 8968/1) 1.5.39 to The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Aero Club Ltd, Woolsington. C of A 6589 issued 30.6.39. Registered (R. 8698/2) 31.7.39 to The Hartlepool & Tees-side Flying Club, West Hartlepool. Registration cancelled 10.9.40 as sold ("Change ownership of aircraft").
Impressed into military service as BK838 10.9.40 and delivered to 33 MU RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire 19.9.40. To 614 (County of Glamorgan) Squadron, RAF Grangemouth 25.10.40. To 51 MU RAF Lichfield 30.6.41. To 27 OTU RAF Lichfield 1.7.42. To 5 MU RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire 10.1.44 and stored. Sold 31.1.46 to Group Captain W.A. Rollason for £100.
Registration G-AFNF restored (C of R 8968/3) 21.3.46 to William A Rollason, London SW.1 (aircraft based at Eastleigh, Hampshire). C of A 10662 allocated but not used; not overhauled and reduced to spares at Eastleigh. Registration G-AFNF cancelled 30.3.48 as Air Ministry notified that the airframe had been "reduced to produce".
Registration G-AFNF restored (again) (C of R R 8968/4 later R.132/4) 12.8.49 to Eric Ivor Henry Ward, Rustington, Sussex (aircraft based at Shoreham, Sussex; later Croydon, Surrey). Overhauled with parts from G-AFOD and C of A renewed 27.9.49. C of A lapsed 26.9.50; renewed 21.9.51. Registration G-AFNF cancelled 18.10.51 as "sold abroad" (via Rollasons).
Registered in France as F-BFYR 31.8.53 to Societe des Papeteries Boucher, Nancy. Registered 27.1.54 to Rene Argot, Claude Fossaert & Denise Verhaeghe, Calais. Registered 22.11.55 to Rene Argot & Denise Verhaeghe, Calais. Converted to Coupe and registered F-PFYR 30.12.58 to same parties. C of A suspended 31.5.65.
Destroyed at Calais–Dunkerque Airport, 30 Avenue Henri Sainsard, Marckin, Pas de Calais, France the early 1970s in unknown circumstances. Registration F-PFYR cancelled 30.11.71 as "destroyed".
NOTE: The exact date and circumstances of the demise of F-PFYR are not clear. The references in the File at the French National Archives in Paris are somewhat vague:
File B.3914
- F-PFYR
- 31 August 1953
- The De Havilland Aircraft Ltd
- Type Moth Minor DH 94 No.94010
- Monsieur René ARGOT 27, rue Francia, CALAIS
- Aérodrome de CALAIS
- Cancelled 30 November 1971 ("Destroyed")"
Hence the date of "30 November 1971" is purely nominal. The aircraft was Withdrawn From Use" by/in May 1965, stored at Calais–Dunkerque Airport, and destroyed at some date between 1.1.70 and 31.11.71.
Sources:
1. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AFNF-1.pdf
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AFNF-2.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p940.html
4. French National Archives File B.3914 at https://www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/siv/rechercheconsultation/consultation/ir/pdfUD.action?irId=FRAN_IR_014988&udId=d_39
5. https://aflyinghistory.com/search-aeroplane-photographs?query=F-PFYR
6. F-PFYR ai 1958: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1774055
7. https://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Crafts/Craft26443.htm
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais%E2%80%93Dunkerque_Airport
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Oct-2022 21:23 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
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