ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 300204
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| Date: | Thursday 4 June 1936 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel |
| Owner/operator: | James Stephen Squires |
| Registration: | G-AEIO |
| MSN: | JS.1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire |
Mignet HM.14 Pou du Ceil (Flying Flea) G-AEIO: c/no. JSS. 1, 11.5.36. A to F (Application to Fly) No 71, issued 11.5.36, expired 10.5.37. Built at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire. Built at Squires' bus garage, helped by Harold Kirby. Unusually large wheels. One source quotes Scott A.2S engine as power plant, but no evidence of this. Pictorial evidence reveals inverted V-twin. Dark fuselage, silver (?) wings and rudder, white registrations. Carried name in script on rudder plus logo of a motor oil - Vigzol?
First flown 4.6.36 from a field near Melton Mowbray (owned by the Equerry to the Prince of Wales), attaining an altitude of about 3 feet. Damaged during its one and only flight. In James Steven Squires 's words:
"Half way up the bloody field I forget which way the throttle went - it took off - I hit a tree". It was rebuilt but G-AEIO did not go back to Melton Mowbray. Cancelled 2.12.37 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawl from use of aircraft".
[Both Squires and Kirby learned to fly at Rearsby. Steven Squires went on to build Luton LA-4 Minor G-AFIR (c/n JSS.2) from plans.]
Sources:
1. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AEIO.pdf
2. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_2000.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A8.html
4. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Accb1939.htm
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melton_Mowbray
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 26-Oct-2022 02:19 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
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