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Date: | unk. date 1932 |
Time: | |
Type: | de Havilland DH.60M Moth |
Owner/operator: | Johannesburg Aeronautical Association |
Registration: | ZS-ADG |
MSN: | 1416 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Harrismith, Free State -
South Africa
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Rand Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa |
Destination airport: | Durban, South Africa |
Narrative:Written off (destroyed) when crashed in mist near Harrismith, en-route to Durban [date unconfirmed but reported as 1931, which seems unlikely?]. More likely to have crashed in 1932.
Sources:
1.
https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf 2.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AARL.pdf 3.
https://www.dehavilland.co.za/DH60_Moth_construction_numbers_and_histories.htm 4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_ZS-.html 5.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p014.html 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrismith
History of this aircraft
c/no. 1416 DH.60M Moth [Gipsy I #769] registered G-AARL [C of R 2271] 9.29 to John Evan Carberry (Lord Carbery), Nairobi, Kenya. C of A 2235 issued 27.9.29. Re-registered [C of R 3210] 28.5.31 to Samuel Norman Turner, Nyeri, Kenya. C of A lapsed 26.9.30. Registration cancelled 9.31 as 'sold abroad'.
To Joseph R King, Johannesburg, South Africa 9.31 (in part exchange for Waco ZS-ABZ). Possibly registered as ZS-ADG. Re-registered [C of R 86] 7.1.32 to Johannesburg Aeronautical Association.
Location
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Feb-2024 17:21 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
03-Feb-2024 17:24 |
harro |
Updated [Date, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |