ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18779
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| Date: | Friday 21 July 1939 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | de Havilland DH.90A Dragonfly |
| Owner/operator: | Mutual Finance Ltd |
| Registration: | G-AEXN |
| MSN: | 7559 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Little Hampden, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey (EGCR) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
c/no 7559: First registered [C of R 7838] as G-AEXN on 30.4.37 to the de Havilland Aircraft Co Ltd., Hatfield, Hertfordshire. C of A 5892 issued May 1937. Sold on to the Royal Aero Club at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Re-registered [C of R 8392/1] on 8.3.38 to The Hon Max Aitken & Brian Sheridan Thynne, London W.1 (aircraft based at Hendon, London NW9). Re-registered [C of R 8392/2] on 30.1.39 to Mutual Finance Ltd, London W.1 (aircraft based at Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey).
Written off (damaged beyond economic repair) 21.7.39 when crashed at Little Hampden, near Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, about three miles south-east of Princes Risborough. All four occupants (pilot and three passengers) were rescued while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. However, only three of the four on board seem to have been identified:
George Charles Toye unhurt (pilot)
Octavius Hunt Critchley unhurt (wireless operator)
Luke Tugwell unhurt (ground engineer)
Registration G-AEXN cancelled by the Air Ministry 29.3.40 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawl from use of aircraft"
Great and Little Hampden is a civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, about three miles south-east of Princes Risborough. It incorporates the villages of Great Hampden and Little Hampden, and the hamlets of Green Hailey and Hampden Row.
Sources:
1. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AEXN.pdf
2. https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-gb-registers-g-ae
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A10.html
4. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh90-dragonfly-little-hampden
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p075.html
6. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Accb1939.htm
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_and_Little_Hampden
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Mar-2010 13:32 | TB | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Narrative] |
| 08-Jan-2014 20:39 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 28-Oct-2017 21:49 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Feb-2018 22:36 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
| 15-Nov-2022 23:37 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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