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Date: | Sunday 14 August 1938 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.60X Moth |
Owner/operator: | Kingston Flying Club |
Registration: | G-CAKE |
MSN: | 458 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 2 miles West of Brockville, Thousand Islands region, Ontario -
Canada
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Kingston Airfield, Kingscourt, Kingston, Ontario |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:DH.60X Moth G-CAKE: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed 2 miles west of Brockville, Ontario 14.8.38. Pilot named as F. Grant. Registration lapsed 14.8.38; registration cancelled 23.3.39 as "withdrawn from use".
Brockville, formerly Elizabethtown, is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region.
Sources:
1.
http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh60.pdf 2.
http://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-canada-register/g-ca?highlight=WyJnLWNha2UiXQ== 3.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-C.html 4.
http://www.rwrwalker.ca/cab_detail_G_CA.htm 5.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh60x-moth-brockville 6.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1980.pdf 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockville
History of this aircraft
c/no. 458: DH.60X [Cirrus II]. Delivered to Canadian Dept of National Defence with C of A 1281 issued 10.1.28. Delivered by DeHavilland Canada to No.1 Air Depot, Ottawa 28.2.28 and then on to Granby Aero Club 8.6.28. Registered as G-CAKE [C of R 443] 9.7.28 to Dept of National Defense and loaned to Granby Aero Club, Quebec. Loaned to Kingston Flying Club, Kingston Airfield, Kingscourt, Kingston, Ontario, with effect from 23.2.31 and registered to the Club 18.9.36. (Presumably sold to the club upon termination of loan period)
Location
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Jan-2008 05:52 |
JINX |
Added |
13-Jan-2014 23:00 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
21-Aug-2017 22:11 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
04-Oct-2023 07:10 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [[Source, Narrative]] |
29-Mar-2024 10:39 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |