Date:	Friday 21 September 1962
Time:	day
Type:	Miles M.3D Falcon Six
Owner/operator:	Geoffrey Cecil Marler
Registration:	G-ADTD
MSN:	255
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Sea off Angmering, West Sussex -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Shoreham, West Sussex (EGKA)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
First registered (C of R 6306) on 30.9.35 as G-ADTD to Maddox Airways Ltd. C of A 5195 issued October 1935. Sold on and re-registered (C of R 6698) on 1.2.36 to Vickers (Aviation) Ltd., Brooklands Aerodrome, West Byfleet, Weybridge, Surrey. Registration cancelled 1.1.39 as a result of the Air Ministry's 1938 census.

Registration G-ADTD reinstated (C of R 6698/2) 19.5.39 to Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., London SW.1 (aircraft based at Eastleigh, Southampton, Hampshire). Re-registered (C of R 6698/3) 26.7.44 to Miles Aircraft Ltd., Woodley Aerodrome, Woodley, Reading, Berkshire.

Re-registered (C of R 6698/4) 30.6.47 to Royce Sidney Turner, London W.8 (later London W.2). Re-registered (C of R 1015/5) 14.9.50 to F. G. Miles Ltd., Redhill Aerodrome, Redhill, Surrey. C of A A1015 issued September 1950. Re-registered (C of R 1015/6) 9.2.51 to The Wiltshire School of Flying Ltd., Thruxton, Andover, Hampshire. Re-registered (C of R 1015/7) 2.4.59 to Geoffrey Cecil Marler, London W.1

Crashed into the sea off Angmering, West Sussex 21.9.62. From The Times Sat 22.9.62:

"Aviator Killed in Looping Practice:
Mr Geoffrey Marler of Angmering, Sussex, was killed yesterday when looping the loop in his Falcon light aircraft over his home, the White House, Tamerisk Way. A wing tip struck an 8 foot tree and the Falcon nose dived into the sea, scattering wreckage over the beach. Mr Marler was practicing aerobatics in preparation for Shoreham Air Day.

An RAF helicopter from Tangmere air base sighted wreckage floating in the sea. Mr Marler's body was later recovered by a boat from Littlehampton.

Mr Marler had been flying for at least ten years. An experienced pilot, he often flew alone. For many years he entered the King's Cup air race."

Registration G-ADTD cancelled by the Civil Aviation Authority as "destroyed" on 6.11.62. It seems that the main undercarriage leg fairings were salvaged and employed in the restoration of Falcon Major G-AEEG, the only example currently on the UK civil register.

1. The Times (London) Saturday 22.9.62
2. National Archives (*PRO Kew) File DR16/221: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1200786
3. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?76980-Miles-Falcon-G-ADTD
4. https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/327827-miles-falcon-g-adtd.html
5. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ADTD-1.pdf
6. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ADTD-2.pdf
7. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1062963/
8. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/15-aeroplanes/78-register-gb-g-ad
9. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A7.html
10. http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=730.0

Miles M.3D Falcon Six G-ADTD at Yeadon (Leeds/Bradford) Airport in May 1955:

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-Jul-2009 22:34	VHKDK	Added
15-Dec-2012 14:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
23-Oct-2013 04:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
14-Jan-2018 21:04	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
14-Jan-2018 21:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
14-Jan-2018 21:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Embed code]
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03-Mar-2020 22:42	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
01-Feb-2021 02:04	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]