ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 277521
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| Date: | Wednesday 29 April 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | de Havilland Queen Bee |
| Owner/operator: | 'X' Flt PAU 1 AACU RAF |
| Registration: | N1845 |
| MSN: | 5288 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Cardigan -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Aberporth Ceredigion |
Mission: Target Drone.
Details:
RAF Aberporth may have been first used by No 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit from 1939 and was certainly in use by 1940. Westland Wallace and Hawker Henley aircraft initially towed target drogues, providing training for ground batteries. Anti-aircraft co-operation continued throughout the Second World War with the de Havilland Queen Bee radio-controlled drones operating from the grass airfield.
The Queen Bee could be operated with or without floats, N1845 operated off the grass strip with the wheels option. It took off with the tasking was to fly over the AAA on the headland, but it seems that the aircraft operator didn’t gain enough height and the DF aerial got caught on trees rendering it unresponsive and flying in a south westerly direction, keeping a steady height below 1000ft. Cardigan lay ahead with slightly rising ground. N1845 hit the ground just west of Cardigan destroying itself!
Crew:
N/A.
Wreckage:
All recovered and the ground has recently been built on.
Sources:
www.airhistory.org.uk/dehavillandproduction/history
www.aberporth.org.uk
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Apr-2022 16:47 | Davies 62 | Added |
| 13-Oct-2022 19:05 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, Operator] |
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