Accident Taylorcraft Auster AOP.V NJ630,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 19320
 
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Date:Tuesday 25 December 1945
Time:
Type:Taylorcraft Auster AOP.V
Owner/operator:A&AEE RAF
Registration: NJ630
MSN: 1018
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase: En route
Nature:Military
Departure airport:RAF Boscombe Down, Wiltshire
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Hit huts whilst low flying and crashed at Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire 25.12.45
Killed were Pilot-Sgt Geoffrey Francis WYKES, from Little Grove Place, Bedford, and passenger LAC Donald Garvin, a married man from Attercliffe, Sheffield.

Sources:

http://www.auster.ukf.net/p10.htm
http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=909
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-May-2008 11:10 ASN archive Added
17-Jun-2012 14:15 Dr. John Smith Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
25-Dec-2021 10:05 Paul Allonby Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative]

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