ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 284373
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| Date: | Tuesday 25 July 1967 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Miles M.38 Messenger 2a |
| Owner/operator: | Private (Unrecorded Owner) |
| Registration: | G-AKKC |
| MSN: | 6369 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Crowland Airstrip, Crowland, Lincolnshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Barton, Salford, Manchester (EGCB) |
| Crowland Airstrip, Crowland, Lincolnshire |
c/no. 6369: G-AKKC Messenger Mk.2A (155 hp Blackburn Cirrus Major III) with oval rear windows. Registered as a Series IIA with C of R No.11990/1 to Gordon White & Co. Ltd., Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire 3.12.47. First C of A No.9889 issued on 12.2.48 to Gordon White & Co. Ltd. Cancelled 11.4.49 and re-registered (C of R 11990/2) to John William Wilkinson Jr, Sackville Lodge Nurseries, Riseley, Bedfordshire 22.4.49.
Cancelled 19.8.50 and re-registered (C of R 11990/3) to Esmond Eaton Kimbell, Northampton 23.8.50, based at Sywell. Cancelled 17.5.50 and re-registered (C of R R 586/4, and new C of A A.586) to Charles Alfred Mackaness, Northampton (Sywell) 22.11.50. Cancelled 12.3.52 and re-registered (C of R 586/5) 20.3.52 to Andrew Frederick Johnson, Spalding, Lincolnshire, aircraft based at Wyberton. On 2.7.55, swung on take-off from Deauville-Saint-Gatien aerodrome (Calvados), France, damaging the undercarriage; returned to Derby for repairs in a DC-3 (Johnson listed as pilot/owner). Cancelled 20.7.55 and re-registered (C of R R 586/6) on 24.9.55 to Derby Aviation Ltd., Burnaston, Derbyshire.
Cancelled 22.10.55 and re-registered (C of R R 586/7) 28.10.55 to David Robert Carnegie, Digwell (Carnegie Flying Group), based Panshanger, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Flown by David Carnegie to Guernsey on 18.6.58 and 21.10.58.
Cancelled 30.6.59 and re-registered (C of R R 586/8) to Edward Lloyd-Jones, Hanwell, London W.7 on 10.7.59; cancelled 17.2.61 and re-registered 24.2.61 (C of R R586/9) to Julian Carbo, Richmond, Surrey and Edward Lloyd-Jones, Pyrford; then cancelled 11.1.62 and registered (C of R R 586/10) 6.2.62 to J Carbo alone. Cancelled 17.11.64 but re-registered (C of R R 586/11) 1.12.64 on charter to John Mitchell Smith, Frimley, Surrey; aircraft based at Blackbushe. Cancelled 12.8.65 and re-registered (C of R R 586/11) on 17.8.65 to Claude Moore, Michael John Morley & John Edward Hemington, London; aircraft based at Blackbushe. Was cancelled 15.8.66 upon sale/transfer to an unrecorded owner but only notified on 24.1.67.
Written off (damaged beyond repair): Arriving from Barton, G-AKKC overshot on landing at J W E Banks' airstrip at Crowland, Lincolnshire on 25.7.67 and ran into a ditch. Substantially damaged and registration cancelled 5.9.67 as destroyed.
Sources:
1. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AKKC-1.pdf
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AKKC-2.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AKKC-3.pdf
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_2001.pdf
5. 1955 accident in France: French National Archives File 19760051/97 - https://francearchives-fr.translate.goog/fr/facomponent/3c5f2d1ee3b0c144dbb902a141f37ce275bc99b1?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
6. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_in_Lincolnshire.pdf
7. G-AKKC at Brggin Hill in 2.5.63: https://www.airhistory.net/photo/123667/G-AKKC
8. G-AKKC various photos 1963 & 1966: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/G-AKKC
9. https://sites.google.com/site/lgarey/aviationphotos
10. https://www.unipage.net/en/airport/gb-0252
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Sep-2022 15:46 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 30-Sep-2022 15:47 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Operator] |
| 30-Sep-2022 15:48 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Destination airport] |
| 30-Sep-2022 15:52 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Destination airport, Source, Category] |
| 30-Sep-2022 16:05 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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