ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18780
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 1961 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | de Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly |
| Owner/operator: | Metropolitan Air Movements |
| Registration: | G-ANYK |
| MSN: | 7529 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | La Baule-Escoublac, Loire-Atlantique department, Pays de la Loire -
 France
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Gatwick, West Sussex (LGW/EGKK) |
| La Baule-Escoublac Airport, Loire-Atlantique, France (LBY/LFRE) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
c/no. 7529 (Gipsy Major #8710/8711): To Gustave Wolf, Algeria with C of A 5674 issued 29.9.36. Registered as F-APDE (C of R 4880) 9.10.36 to Gustave Wolf, Constantine, Algeria. Flown 1.38 by Wolf in Rallye du Hoggar, Algeria and damaged when undercarriage collapsed on ground loop El Golea. Re-registered 3.38 to Georges Prieur, Algeria. Re-registered 10.38 to Societe Francaise de Transports Aeriens, Paris-Le Bourget. To Spanish
Republicans mid-1938 (serial "706" or "756"). Fled to Argelia, Oran, 24.3.39 but recovered by Nationalists 4.39.
To Spanish Air Force [Ejercito del Aire] as '40-4'. Registered EC-BAA 20.3.41 to Iberia Airlines. Re-registered EC-AAQ in 1947 to Iberia Airlines; fleet no.39. Re-registered 2.7.48 to Rodolfo Bay Wright, Tangiers. Registration cancelled 12.3.49. Re-registered OO-PET (C of R 829) 28.9.49 to M Peetermans, Brussels (but based at Tangiers); (acquired in exchange for Argus OO-PET, which became EC-AEN in 1953). Registration cancelled 24.2.53 as sold to France. Re-registered F-OAMS 16.7.53 (or 22.7.53) to Irene Daunes, Tangiers.
Delivered 8.54 from Toussus-le-Noble to Jersey. French registration cancelled 13.1.55 as 'sold abroad'. Re-registered as G-ANYK (C of R R.4817/1) on 20.1.55 to British European Airways Corporation, Jersey (bought 24.1.55). Stored Jersey in dismantled state [by/in 3.56]. Registration cancelled 1.5.56 and re-registered (C of R R4187/2) 25.7.56 to Owen Hill, Winchester; air freighted from Jersey to Eastleigh by Bristol 170 G-AMWC 1.7.56. Rebuilt and re-flown at Eastleigh, Hampshire 27.3.59. C of A issued 27.5.59. Registration cancelled 5.11.59 and re-registered 27.11.59 (C of R 4187/3) to John Robert Thomas Gibson Jarvie, Warfield, Berkshire, and Bryan Howard Moir Winslett, Horley, Surrey. Registration cancelled 1.12.60 and re-registered (C of R R4187/4) 20.12.60 to Metropolitan Air Movements Ltd, Gatwick (aircraft based at based Biggin Hill).
Written off (damaged beyond repair): Port undercarriage collapsed on landing La Baule-Escoublac Airport, Loire-Atlantique department, Pays de la Loire, France 23.6.61. Registration G-ANYK cancelled 2.10.61 as "Destroyed".
Sources:
1. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH90.pdf
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANYK-1.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ANYK-2.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p075.html
5. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1182008/ [G-ANYK at Kidlington, Oxfordshire 6.5.60]
6. https://www.airteamimages.com/de-havilland-dragonfly_G-ANYK_-private_99389_large.html
7. https://www.airteamimages.com/de-havilland-dragonfly_G-ANYK_-private_354362_large.html
8. https://www.airhistory.net/photo/358253/G-ANYK [G-ANYK at Coventry on 29.4.61]
9. https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=139398
10. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh90-dragonfly-la-baule
11. https://www.aviationcorner.net/show_photo_en.asp?id=323886 [as EC-BAA at Madrid in 1941]
12. https://ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/beafleetlist.pdf
13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Baule-Escoublac
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 21-Mar-2010 13:34 | TB | Updated [Other fatalities, Phase] |
| 25-Nov-2012 17:03 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
| 14-Nov-2022 00:14 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 14-Nov-2022 00:15 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total occupants, Category] |
| 14-Nov-2022 00:16 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
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