ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 153488
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Date: | Wednesday 1 February 1939 |
Time: | |
Type: | de Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth |
Owner/operator: | Wilson Airways Ltd |
Registration: | VP-KAY |
MSN: | 2076 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kitlae, Trans-Nzoia District, Rift Valley Province. -
Kenya
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger |
Departure airport: | Njoro, Kenya |
Destination airport: | Kitlae, Kenya |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Registered G-AAZU [C of R 2620] 7.7.30 to Brian Lewis & CD Barnard Ltd, Heston. C of A 2770 issued 7.10.30. Registered [C of R 2875] 29.10.30 to Peter Malcolm, The 4th Earl of Lovelace, Tanganyika; named "U Fiome" and flown out by Lovelace from Le Bourget 28.12.30. C of A lapsed 13.7.32 and registration cancelled 2.2.33 as sold abroad. Registered in Tanganyika as VR-TAI 2.33. Re-registered in Kenya as VP-KAY 21.6.33 to Wilson Airways Ltd, Njoro.
Damaged in accident at Kitale, Trans-Nzoia District, Rift Valley Province, Kenya, 1.2.39. Sold as spares to EW D'Olier 28.4.39. Registration cancelled as withdrawn from use 3.9.39
Sources:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AAZU.pdf http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/vr-taa.pdf http://www.goldenyears.ukf.net/reg_G-A2.htm http://www.dehavilland.ukf.net/p020.htm http://www.goldenyears.ukf.net/reg_VR-T.htm http://www.goldenyears.ukf.net/reg_VP-K.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Feb-2013 15:52 |
Dr. John Smith |
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