ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 239734
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| Date: | Friday 31 March 2000 |
| Time: | 12:56 |
| Type: |  Supermarine Spitfire T.IX |
| Owner/operator: | Private (G-INFO) |
| Registration: | G-LFIX |
| MSN: | CBAF.8463 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Duxford Airfield (EGSU), Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England, -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | Duxford Airfield (EGSU), Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK |
| Duxford Airfield (EGSU), Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
The aircraft landed back on the airfields grass runway following a practice display flight, in preparation for the forthcoming summer season and while taxiing back to the parking area collided almost head on with a Bell 206 which was parked on the Helicopter landing pad causing substantial damage to the helicopter and damaging the propeller blades and nose cone on the Spitfire.
Sources:
https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports - AAIB Bulletin No: 6/2000 Ref: EW/G2000/03/21
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 March 1986 | G-LFIX | Island Trading Ltd. (G-INFO) | 0 | Southampton Airport (EGHI), Eastleigh, Hampshire, England | |
sub |
| 15 September 2016 | G-LFIX | Carolyn Stuart Grace (regd. owner) | 0 | Sywell Aerodrome, Hall Farm, Sywell, Northamptonshire, England | |
sub |
Images:
RAF Waddington (EGXW), Lincolnshire, UK. - 29th June 1996
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Aug-2020 18:42 | Peter Clarke | Added |
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