ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 163379
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| Date: | Thursday 12 August 1937 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.60X Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Witney & Oxford Aero Club |
| Registration: | G-EBZI |
| MSN: | 650 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Crawley Mill, Dry Lane, Curbridge, near Witney, Oxfordshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Witney Aerodrome, Witney, Oxfordshire |
| Witney Aerodrome, Witney, Oxfordshire |
DH.60X [Cirrus II] registered G-EBZI [C of R 1681] 6.7.28 to Edward H Thierry, Stag Lane, Edgware, Middlesex. C of A 1520 issued 20.7.28. Registered [C of R 3447] 26.10.31 to Phillips & Powis Aircraft (Reading) Ltd, Woodley, Reading, Berkshire. Bought April 1932 and re-registered [C of R 3886] in July 1932 to Scottish Eastern Aircraft Services Ltd, Earlston, Berwickshire. Re-registered [C of R 5536] 9.1.35 to Witney & Oxford Aero Club Ltd, Witney Aerodrome, Witney, Oxfordshire
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 12.8.37 when crashed in unknown circumstances at Crawley Mill, Dry Lane, Curbridge, near Witney Aerodrome, Witney, Oxfordshire, while performing a local training flight. The aircraft came to rest upside down and was damaged beyond repair. Both occupants were injured.
Registration G-EBZI formally cancelled at annual census 31.12.38.
Curbridge is a village and civil parish immediately southwest of Witney, in the West Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The crash location seems to have been a field between Dry Lane and the River Windrush (a site now occupied by the Crawley Mill Industrial Estate, named after the long-gone Crawley Mill)
Sources:
1. Witney's Forgotten Airfield 1918 to 1951 by Peter Davis (Bampton Archives Publications April 2015) (page 25)
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-E4.html
3. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
4. http://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-great-bitain-registers-g-eb/g-eb-part-2?highlight=WyJnLWViemkiXQ==
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p006.html
6. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh60x-moth-witney
7. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-EBZI.pdf
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curbridge,_Oxfordshire
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Jan-2014 00:04 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 21-Aug-2017 23:32 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Destination airport, Source] |
| 09-Oct-2023 19:46 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [[Destination airport, Source]] |
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