ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 202542
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| Date: | Sunday 10 May 1936 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Spartan Three Seater |
| Owner/operator: | Air Trips Ltd |
| Registration: | G-ABKK |
| MSN: | 58 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Westwood, Coventry, Warwickshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
| Departure airport: | Westwood, Coventry, Warwickshire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Simmonds Spartan Three-seater [Hermes II engine] G-ABKK: first registered [C of R 3092] 24.4.31 to Spartan Aircraft Ltd, Somerton. C of A 2982 issued 1.5.31. Re-registered 12.31 to Phillips & Powis Aircraft [Reading] Ltd, Woodley, Reading, Berkshire. Re-registered 1.32 to Pauline Gower; jointly operated with Dorothy Spicer, Penshurst; also operated from Oakley Woods, Wallingford, and named “Helen of Troy”.
Operated [5.32-6.32] with The Crimson Fleet [Modern Airways Ltd] on joy-riding trips. Damaged in collision with DH.60 G-AAKG Cardiff 8.6.32; repaired. Operated 4.33-10.33 on British Hospitals Air Pageants tour. Re-registered [C of R 5436] 9.11.34 to Air Trips Ltd., Tunbridge Wells, Kent (aircraft based at Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey). Operated 4.35-8.35 on Jubilee Air Displays tour.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when collided with Avro 504N G-AECR on take-off at Westwood, Coventry, Warwickshire 10.5.36 during British Empire Air Display tour; pilot Pauline Gower badly injured. G-ABKK crashed into a field of wheat; Avro 504 G-AECR landed safely.
Registration G-ABKK cancelled by the Air Ministry 2.12.36 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawl from use of aircraft"
Sources:
1. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/76-register-gb-g-ab
2. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ABKK.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A2.htmll
4. http://wight.hampshireairfields.co.uk/sim.html
5. http://www.baaa-acro.com/1936/archives/crash-of-a-simmonds-spartan-in-coventry/
6. http://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/component/content/article?id=156:the-aerial-circuses
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Dec-2017 14:02 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 05-Dec-2017 14:02 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 13-Jan-2022 11:34 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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