Incident de Havilland DH.60G Moth SP-AHD,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 351788
 
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Date:Friday 1 September 1939
Time:day
Type:Silhouette image of generic DH60 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
de Havilland DH.60G Moth
Owner/operator:Messrs Z Mielzynski, Kurnatowski & Jezierski.
Registration: SP-AHD
MSN: 1893
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Lwow Airfield, Skniłów, Lviv Oblast -   Ukraine
Phase: Standing
Nature:-
Departure airport:-
Destination airport:-
Narrative:
Written off (destroyed) by German bombers when parked at Lwow Airfield, Sknyliv, Lviv Oblast 1.9.39 during invasion of Poland.

The interwar Lwów was also a major centre of the Polish Air Force with the Sixth Air Regiment located there. The Regiment was based at the Lwów airport, which opened in 1924 in the suburb of Skniłów (today Ukrainian: Sknyliv). The airport is located 6 km (4 miles) from the city centre. Lwow is now renamed Lviv, and is in Ukraine

Sources:

1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ABTW.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p018.html
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv

History of this aircraft

c/no. 1893 DH.60G Moth [Gipsy I #1403]: registered as G-ABTW [C of R 3607] 9.2.32 to Capt. Hubert Stanford Broad, Notting Hill, London W11 (aircraft based at Stag Lane, Edgware. Middlesex). C of A 3313 issued 9.2.32. Registration G-ABTW cancelled 2.33 as 'sold abroad'.

Re-registered in Poland as SP-AHD 24.3.32 to (DeHavilland Agent in Poland) Baron Bernard de Skorzewski, Poznan. Sold 9.34 to Messrs Z Mielzynski, Kurnatowski & Jezierski, Poland

Location

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
19-Feb-2024 08:30 Dr. John Smith Added
19-Feb-2024 08:31 ASN Updated [Country, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative]

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