ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 302288
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| Date: | Saturday 9 May 1931 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Hawker Osprey (Prototype) |
| Owner/operator: | Hawker Aircraft Ltd |
| Registration: | J9052 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Brooklands Airfield, Weybridge, Surrey, UK. -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Brooklands Airfield, Weybridge, Surrey, UK. |
The Hawker Osprey was a folding-wing, navalised version of Hawker Hart to Air Ministry Specification O.22/26, produced by H.G. Hawker.
The Hawker Hart prototype (J9052) was used for development of the Hawker Osprey (from 1927). Development of the Hawker Osprey also included adaptations for catapult launching and for seaplane operations.
The float undercarriage was designed to be interchangeable with the normal wheeled undercarriage, using the same four attachment points, thus allowing for both carrier-borne and conventional operations
The modifications to the prototype, known as the Naval Hawker Hart produced against Specification O.22/26, resulted in the drafting of a new Specification 19/30, against which the production Hawker Osprey aircraft were procured.
So modified, it crashed on take-off from Brooklands Aerodrome on 9 May 1931. The cause of the accident was that the aileron control lines had been wrongly connected when the aeroplane was rigged. The Osprey was badly damaged in the crash, and later written off as "damaged beyond economical repair"
Sources:
1. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_in_the_South_East.pdf
2. https://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=19281.0
3. https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/heritage/hawker-osprey
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hart#Osprey
5. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060000428 [Film of Osprey J9052 during deck landing trials on board HMS Furious]
6. https://www.orpheusweb.co.uk/vicsmith/Accidents/May31.html
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklands#Inter-war_years_2
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