ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 19002
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| Date: | Thursday 31 August 1939 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Short S.22 Scion Senior |
| Owner/operator: | Elders Colonial Airways |
| Registration: | G-AENX |
| MSN: | S.835 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Bathurst -
 Gambia
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Bathurst, Gambia |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
First registered [C of R 7370] on 15.7.37 as G-AENX to West of Scotland Airways Lt., Renfrew, Scotland. C of A 6003 issued August 1937. Actually first flown as a landplane before being converted to its intended floatplane configuration.
Re-registered [C of R 8369] 26.2.38 to Elders Colonial Airways Ltd, London W.1 (aircraft based at Freetown, Sierra Leone). Written off (damaged beyond repair) when sank at moorings at Bathurst, Gambia, in August 1939.
Registration G-AENX belatedly cancelled by the Air Ministry post war, on 5.12.45, due to "destruction or permanent withdrawl from use of aircraft". A note on the aircraft's record card states "(Census 1945)"; which indicates that the Air Ministry were only made aware of the demise of G-AENX after a return from the last registered owners, in response to the Air Ministry's 1945 census into the existence (or not) of all UK-registered pre-war civil aircraft
Sources:
1. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AENX.pdf
2. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/component/content/article/15-aeroplanes/79-register-gb-g-ae
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A9.html
4. http://www.orpheusweb.co.uk/vicsmith/OldAccs/Aug39.html
5. http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/html pages/SHORT S22 SCION SENIOR.htm
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elders_Colonial_Airways#Operational_years
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 18-Mar-2013 02:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Country, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 06-May-2014 16:50 | TB | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 28-Oct-2017 18:50 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-Jan-2018 22:52 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Source, Narrative] |
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