ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 32107
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| Date: | Tuesday 29 November 1949 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide |
| Owner/operator: | Mrs E.M. Noon t/a Noon & Pearce Air Charters |
| Registration: | VP-KFV |
| MSN: | 6406 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Masindi Airport, Masindi, Bunyoro, Western Region -
 Uganda
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Masindi Airport, Masindi, Bunyoro, Uganda (KCU/HUMI) |
| Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
c/no.6406: Registered G-AFEP [CofR 8320] 11.4.38 to North Eastern Airways Ltd, Doncaster. CofA 6252 issued 13.5.38. Registration cancelled 23.3.40 as sold. Impressed as X9388 25.3.40 and delivered to RAF Benson, Oxfordshire the same day.
To 6 AACU, RAF Ringway, Cheshire, 17.4.40. To 782 Squadron Fleet Air Arm and/or Station Flight RNAS Donibristle 5.5.40. Returned to RAF 30.8.40. Struck off charge 12.11.40
Registered G-AFEP 13.11.40 to Air Commerce Ltd, Speke, Liverpool (postwar base Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey). Registered 30.12.46 to [parent company] Olley Air Service Ltd, Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey. Re-registered 19.5.47 to Sir Brograve Beauchamp (of Demolition & Construction Co Ltd), London SW1. Registered 2.9.47 to Frederick Arthur White & Herbert Cecil Douglas Haytor, London W.1 (aircraft based at Croydon Airport). Registration cancelled 15.4.48 as 'sold abroad'.
Registered in Kenya as VP-KFV 1.6.48 to Mrs E.M. Noon; operated by Noon & Pearce Air Charters, Nairobi, Kenya.
Destroyed by fire on start-up Masindi Airport, Masindi, Bunyoro, Western Region, Uganda, 29.11.49; the pilot (the sole person on board) managed to vacate the aircraft before the fire took hold.
Sources:
1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AFEP-1.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AFEP-2.pdf
4. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/vp-kaa_&_sy-aaa.pdf
5. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/ground-fire-de-havilland-dh89a-dragon-rapide-masindi
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A10.html
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p064.html
8. http://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/80-register-gb-g-af
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masindi
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 30-Dec-2011 10:47 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 08-Feb-2018 18:49 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Country, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Feb-2019 16:40 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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