ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 24978
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| Date: | Friday 6 May 1949 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Percival Q.6 Petrel |
| Owner/operator: | Starways |
| Registration: | G-AFIX |
| MSN: | Q.31 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Broom Hall, 3 miles North East of Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Squires Gate, Blackpool, Lancashire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Uprated P.16D version of the Percival Q.6 Petrel with retractable undercarriage; G-AFIX was the second P.16D model to be built. First registered [C of R 8936] as G-AFIX on 7.12.38; delivered to William Arthur Henry Bellingham Burnside at Croydon Airport on 12.12.38. C of A 6465 issued December 1938.
Sold on and re-registered [C of R 8936/1] 13.3.39 to Ambrose Herman White, Connell, Argyll (although aircraft based at Gatwick Airport, Horley, Surrey). Registration G-AFIX cancelled or lapsed 1.6.39.
Sold on and re-registered [C of R 8936/3] 18.11.39 to Western Airways Ltd, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset and carried the red and blue livery of Western Airways Ltd. on the Castle Bromwich-Whitchurch (Bristol)-Weston Super Mare-Cardiff route from 3.6.39. Service continued (under permit) after the outbreak of WW II on 3.9.39.
Civil registration G-AFIX cancelled 2.4.40 when impressed into military service as X9406.
Civil registration G-AFIX restored [C of R 8936/4] on 31.5.46 to London & Oxford Steel Co Ltd., London SW.1. Sold on and re-registered [C of R 8936/5] 1.10.46 to Air Kruise (Kent) Ltd., Lympne Airport, Ashford, Kent. Quickly sold on and re-registered [C of R 8936/6] 21.11.46 to Freemantle Brothers Radios Ltd. London W.1. Registration cancelled or lapsed 2.12.48.
Registration restored when sold on again [C of R 8936/6] on 7.1.49 to Noel Rodright t/a Starways, Blackpool, Lancashire
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 6.5.1949; The twin engine aircraft was carrying three passengers and a pilot from Blackpool and crashed in unknown circumstances in an open field located in Broom Hall, about three miles northeast of Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales. The airplane was damaged beyond repair and all four occupants were injured
Starways replaced this aircraft with an Avro Anson on lease, and at this time the company moved its base from Blackpool to Liverpool (Speke) Airport.
Registration G-AFIX belatedly cancelled by the Air Ministry ("Cancellation by Secretary of State") on 18.3.1959 - almost ten years later
Sources:
1. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/15-aeroplanes/80-register-gb-g-af
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AFIX-1.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AFIX-2.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A11.html
5. https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1946/1946%20-%201685.PDF
6. https://www.baaa-acro.com/aircraft/percival-q6-petrel
7. http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/HornDavid/12486.htm
8. Weston-Super-Mare and the Aeroplane by Roger Dudley & Ted Johnson
9. http://derbosoft.proboards.com/thread/3790/starways-liverpool-based-airline?page=1&scrollTo=19118
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 10-Mar-2013 19:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 12-Feb-2018 19:18 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 12-Feb-2018 19:20 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
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