Date:	Saturday 15 October 1949
Time:	12:10
Type:	Short SA.6 Sealand 1
Owner/operator:	Short Bros. & Harland
Registration:	G-AKLM
MSN:	SH.1562
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Spangereid, Vest-Agder -   Norway
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Oslo Airport, Fornebu (FBU/ENFB)
Destination airport:	Stavanger, Norway
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Short SA.6 Sealand Mk.1: First registered (C of R 12025/1; C of A 10689) to Short Brothers & Harland Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Written off (destroyed) 15th October 1949 when crashed into mountain near Spagereid, Vest-Agder, Norway, whilst on sales tour. According to a contemporary report in Flight magazine (20 October 1949 page 520):

"SEALAND ACCIDENT
SHORT BROS. AND HARLAND, LTD. suffered a severe loss in the unfortunate accident which occurred at Spangereid, Norway, on October 15th involving the total destruction of a Short Sealand. It is reported that the Sealand had taken off from Oslo for Stavanger on one of the last flights of its Scandinavian tour, mentioned in Flight, October 6th, and that it struck a mountainside at 600 ft in conditions of poor visibility.

Those on board were F/L. D. G. McCall, pilot, who was on loan from the R.A.F. for the duration of the tour, Mr. Hugh Adams, flight engineer, Mr. George Puddicombe, sales representative, and Mr. O. R. B. Olsen, the company's Norwegian representative."

Registration G-AKLM cancelled by the Secretary of State Air Ministry on 15 October 1949 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawl from use of aircraft"

1. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?95277-Short-S-A-6-Sealand-info-sought
2. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?17746-Short-Sealand-questions
3. Flight magazine (20 October 1949 p 520): https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1949/1949%20-%201756.html?search=Sealand%20accident
4. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT 217/2622: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C576776 (report by Norwegian Commission of Inquiry)
5. National Archives (PRO Kew) File BT 217/2624: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C576778
6. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AKLM.pdf
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sealand
9. https://www.airteamimages.com/short-sealand_G-AKLM_short-brothers_265496.html
10. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-short-sa6-sealand-i-spangereid-4-killed

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-May-2008 11:10	ASN archive	Added
13-Nov-2008 01:03	Anon.	Updated
02-Dec-2012 12:55	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
20-Sep-2013 09:34	harro	Updated [Total fatalities, Source]
06-May-2014 12:57	TB	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
09-Dec-2019 16:53	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
09-Dec-2019 17:37	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
07-Aug-2022 17:17	R Green	Updated [Time, Location, Narrative]