ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 173009
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Date: | Friday 17 January 1936 |
Time: | |
Type: | Spartan Three Seater |
Owner/operator: | Edward G Clerk t/a Austral Air Services Pty Ltd |
Registration: | VH-UUU |
MSN: | 56 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Tennant Creek, NT -
Australia
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | - |
Departure airport: | Tennant Creek, NT |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Simmonds Spartan Three-seater [Hermes II] G-ABJS registered [C of R 3060] 3.31 to Spartan Aircraft Ltd, Somerton, Hampshire. C of A 2953 issued 31.3.31. Operated [6.31-8.31] on CD Barnard Air Tours.
Registered 12.31 to Phillips & Powis Aircraft [Reading] Ltd, Woodley, Berkshire. Registered [C of R 3667] 3.32 to Frederick G Miles, Shoreham. Registered [C of R 3724] 4.32 to unknown/unrecorded owner. Registered [C of R 5419] 30.10.34 to Major Edward G Clerk, Witney. Clerk took a“flying circus” to Australia in 1934. UK C of A lapsed 16.4.35. Registration G-ABJS cancelled 7.12.35 as sold.
Registered in Australia as VH-UUU [C of R 537] 20.7.35 to Edward G Clerk, t/a Austral Air Services Pty Ltd, Toowoomba, Queensland.
Destroyed in gales whilst parked at Tennant Creek, NT 17.1.36. Registration VH-UUU lapsed 19.7.36
Sources:
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http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/76-register-gb-g-ab 2.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_VH-U1.html 3.
http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/simspar/simspar250413.pdf 4.
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ABJS.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
15-Jan-2015 01:27 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
13-Jan-2022 11:33 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
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