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Date: | Thursday 31 May 1945 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.60M Moth |
Owner/operator: | G B Flinders |
Registration: | CF-ADO |
MSN: | 800 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Fort Frances, Rainy River District, Ontario -
Canada
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Fort Frances, Rainy River District, Ontario |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:DH.60M Moth CF-ADO: Damaged by gales and livestock whilst picketed in field at Fort Frances, Ontario May 1945; (exact date not yet found, but not later than 31.5.45). Aircraft overturned, not repaired, withdrawn from use.
Fort Frances is a town in, and the seat of, Rainy River District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada
Sources:
1.
https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf 2.
https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-canada-register/cf-a?highlight=WyJjZi1hZG8iXQ== 3.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_CF-.html 4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p008.html 5.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1981.pdf 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Frances
History of this aircraft
c/no 800 DH.60M Moth Seaplane [Gipsy I #433] to DeHavilland Canada without C of A; arrived Mount Dennis 9.5.29. Registered CF-ADO [C of R 675] 3.7.29 to De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd, Toronto. Registered 25.7.29 to Col. C.H. Ackerman, Peterborough, Ontario. Registered 3.7.30 to Tom Montgomery Prospecting Syndicate, New Liskeard, Ontario. Registration CF-ADO cancelled as 'lapsed' 6.8.32; converted to landplane, registration renewed in 1933. Re-registered 22.6.34 to D Pickering, Hamilton, Ontario. Registered [C of R 1590] 28.6.35 to C.K. Berry, Toronto, Ontario. Re-registered [C of R 1806] 25.9.36 to Murray Aeronautical Corporation Ltd, Barker Field, Toronto, Ontario. Re-registered [C of R 1884] 25.1.37 to G.T. Record, Long Branch, Ontario. Registration cancelled as 'lapsed' 1.6.38; renewed 13.3.39. Re-registered [C of R 2432/A314] 15.5.39 to H.J. Parsons, Fort William, Ontario. Sold 20.5.44 (but not re-registered) to G.B. Flinders, Fort Frances, Ontario.
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Mar-2024 22:02 |
Dr. John Smith |
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