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Date: | Monday 18 November 1968 |
Time: | overnight |
Type: | Slingsby CAMCO Mk IIA V-Liner |
Owner/operator: | Slingsby Engineering Ltd |
Registration: | G-AWPR |
MSN: | 1657 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Slingsby Engineering Ltd, Kirkbymoorside, Thirsk, North Yorkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Kirkbymoorside, Thirsk, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The Slingsby CAMCO V-Liner was a proposed advertising aircraft of unusual design of the 1960s. It was intended to display advertising using electric lights to be viewed at a long distance, and as such consisted of a long triangular frame carried between two sets of wings and fuselages.
Work began on construction of the first prototype in 1968, but the Slingsby factory was wrecked by a fire on the night of 17/18 November 1968, and the partly built prototype (G-AWPR) was badly damaged. The fire forced Slingsby into receivership, and although the company was rescued by Vickers Limited and resumed glider production, work on the V-Liner was abandoned.
G-AWPR was first UK registered (C of R R10421/1) on 16 September 1968, to Slingsby Aircraft Company Ltd, and the registration was formally (and belatedly) cancelled on 11 July 1973 as "P.W.F.U." (Permanently Withdrawn From Use")
Sources:
1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingsby_CAMCO_V-Liner 2. National Archives (PRO Kew) File DR16/92:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1200657 3.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AWPR.pdf 4. "Twenty-Sixth SBAC Show: Slingsby CAMCO V-Liner". Flight International. 19 September 1968. p. 446:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160306182100/https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1968/1968%20-%202035.html 5. "The CAMCO V-Liner". Flight International. 12 September 1968. p. 420:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150623232631/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1968/1968%20-%201960.html 6. Jackson, A. J. (1974). British Civil Aircraft since 1919. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-370-10006-9.
7. "Private Flying: Slingsby in Business Again". Flight International. 13 November 1969. p. 735:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150623231938/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1969/1969%20-%203187.html 8. Taylor, John W. R., ed. (1969). Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1969–70. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company. ISBN 0-354-00051-9.
9. "The Flying Billboard", The Aviation Historian, No. 1, 2012, pp.24-25.
10.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_in_Northern_England.pdf 11.
https://picclick.co.uk/Slingsby-Camco-V-Liner-Pan-Am-Boeing-707-203878752970.html#&gid=1&pid=1 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Jul-2022 23:56 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
11-Jul-2022 14:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Source, Narrative] |