Date:	Saturday 3 November 1962
Time:	day
Type:	Edgar Percival EP-9
Owner/operator:	Crop Culture (Aerial) Ltd
Registration:	G-AOFU
MSN:	20
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Sennar Dam, Al Jazirah region, Maturabi -   Sudan
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Agricultural
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
c/no. 20: EP.9 Prototype. Registered (C of R R.4903/1) as G-AOFU to Edgar Wikner Percival, London W.1 (aircraft based at Stapleford, Abridge, Essex) 1.11.55. Built at Stapleford and completed 9.12.55, first flight there 21.12.55. Re-registered (R.4903/2) 22.10.56 to Edgar Percival Aircraft Ltd.,Stapleford, Abridge, Essex. C of A A.4903 issued 30.11.56. Modified with addition of dorsal fin fillet, elevator mass balance weights replaced by tip balances and clam-shell doors replaced by single right-hinged rear door. To Air ADS Ltd, Stapleford 6.57. Spray bars fitted. Re-registered (C of R R4903/3) 25.9.57 to Clive Joyce Marmol, Southend-on-Sea, Essex (later - 14.2.58 -to same owner at Rochford,Essex). Hanover Air Show exhibit 1960

Written off when crashed in the Sudan 3.11.1962: Crashed as a result of turbulence near the Sennar Dam, Maturabi during crop spraying operations. Pilot Martin Coates killed. The Sennar Dam is an irrigation dam on the Blue Nile near the town of Sennar in the Al Jazirah region of Sudan

Registration G-AOFU belatedly cancelled 27.8.65 as "PWFU" ("Permanently Withdrawn From Use")

1. http://www.northwealdairfieldmuseum.com/upload/AIRCRAFT%20MANUFACTURE.pdf
2. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?117154-Seeking-info-on-Martin-Coates-pilot-killed-in-Sudan-1962
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AOFU.pdf
4. https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1956/1956
5. https://www.pprune.org/where-they-now/486993-martin-coates-killed-while-crop-spraying-sudan-1962-a.html
6. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1992.pdf pp.91-92
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sennar_Dam

First prototype Edgar Percival EP.9 G-AOFU flying at an agricultural aviation demonstration at a disused RAF airfield in East Anglia, UK during the Summer of 1959 (quite probably at Bourn, Cambrigeshire, Fison-Airwork's base)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Jul-2009 01:05	VHKDK	Added
01-Jun-2012 16:25	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
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02-Jun-2012 01:52	Anon.	Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative]
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24-Nov-2012 22:23	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative]
17-Oct-2022 21:58	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative, Category]
17-Oct-2022 21:59	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
18-Oct-2022 16:46	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Embed code]