ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 302285
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| Date: | Sunday 7 December 1913 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2a |
| Owner/operator: | RAE Farnborough |
| Registration: | 235 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Farnborough Airfield, Farnborough, Hampshire -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Farnborough Airport, Farnborough, Hampshire (EGLF) |
| Farnborough Airport, Farnborough, Hampshire (EGLF) |
On 7 December 1913 Lieutenant Norman Channing Spratt, an officer in the RFC Special Reserve who was seconded to the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough as a test pilot, was testing B.E.2a number 235 when it crashed at Farnborough.
Norman Channing Spratt (1885–1944) a native of Durban, Colony of Natal, was an officer of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War who was involved in aircraft testing at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, United Kingdom. He later served as a group captain in the Royal Air Force. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1925. On 7 December 1913, Spratt, as factory test pilot, crashed Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2a, 235, at the Farnborough Aerodrome, pilot surviving.
It is possible that B.E.2a 235 was repaired and returned to service: one source (see link #5) lists this airframe as one of seven aircraft of 2 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, that force landed in fog in the area pf Danby Wiske, North Yorkshire on 11 May 1914, pilot by Flt Lt Todd.
Sources:
1. Cooper, Peter J., "Picking up the Pieces", Air International, Stamford, Lincs., UK, November 1998, Volume 55, Number 5, page 280.
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Spratt
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/rfc/BE2-2.html
4. https://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=19284.0
5. https://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/yorkshire/early/15may1914c.html
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