Date:	Saturday 26 May 1951
Time:	day
Type:	Taylorcraft Auster AOP.V
Owner/operator:	61 Gp CF RAF
Registration:	TW451
MSN:	1781
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Kenley, Whyteleafe, Surrey, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	RAF Kenley, Whyteleafe, Surrey
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Auster AOP.5 TW451/"RCD-E", 61 Group Communications Flight, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when blown over on landing in gusty conditions at RAF Kenley, Whyteleafe, Surrey 26/5/51; Deemed damaged Beyond repair, and struck off charge.

Despite this, sold off for repairs/rebuild, and civil registered (C of R R.3532/1) as G-AMOR 24/01/1952 to Hants & Sussex Aviation, Portsmouth, Hampshire. UK civil registration cancelled 22/03/1952 when sold to Finland as OH-AUE (the first). Originally intended for sale to the Netherlands as PH-NER on 11/5/1952, but the sale fell through, and the registration PH-NER was cancelled on 2/5/1952. The registration PH-NER was later re-allocated to another Auster (c/no.1082, Ex-G-ALXZ, and RAF serial NJ689 before that)

NOTE: The Auster currently (2012) on the Finnish Civil register as OH-AUE is the second aircraft to carry that registration, and is a different aircraft - c/no 3734 (ex-Auster AOP.6 WJ373 and SE-ELE). OH-AUE (the first) was deleted from the Finnish Civil Register on 14/10/1969, and presumed scrapped. It is reported from Finland that parts were used in the repair of OH-AUA, c/no. 1556.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.114 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.139
4. http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=1680
5. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AMOR.pdf
6. http://austerhg.org/gallery3/Auster-1243594292/Model_J/G-AMOR-MkV-TW451_-2
7. https://www.hdekker.info/registermap/MN.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-May-2009 12:58	XLerate	Added
26-Apr-2013 01:14	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
06-May-2013 14:23	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Location]
05-Nov-2019 22:48	Anon.	Updated [Operator, Operator]
23-Jan-2021 23:02	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
10-Jul-2023 20:48	Nepa	Updated [[Time, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]]