Date:	Sunday 11 August 1968
Time:	day
Type:	Druine D.31 Turbulent
Owner/operator:	Norman Herbert Jones (The Tiger Club)
Registration:	G-ASDB
MSN:	PFA/1600
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Shoreham Airport, Lancing, West Sussex -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Demo/Airshow/Display
Departure airport:	Shoreham Airport West Sussex (EGKA)
Destination airport:	Shoreham Airport, West Sussex (EGKA)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Druine D.31 Turbulent G-ASDB: First regsitered (C of R 7711/1) to Rollason Aircraft & Engines Ltd., Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey. Registration cancelled ("Change of Ownership of Aircraft") 11.11.63. Sold on and re-registered the very next day (12.11.63) to Norman Herbert Jones (The Tiger Club) Claygate, Surrey (C of R 7711/2)

Written off (destroyed) at Shoreham Airport, Lancing, West Sussex 11.8.68 when crashed during an aerobatic display. The pilot was killed (died later of injuries sustained, in hospital). According to an eyewitness report:

"I witnessed the aircraft connected to two other Turbulent Druine aircraft by "Bunting" at the wing tips. All three a/c taxied and took-off in formation climbing very steeply, still joined by the bunting. Breaking away at the top of the climb, G-ASDB appeared to have a technical issue, and entered an uncontrollable spin, crashing a couple of hundred metres away from me, where I was working for a "Joy Flight" company operating an Aztec and Twin Comanche".

According to contemporary newspaper reports dated 12.8.68 (see links #2, #3 and #4)

"Air display pilot hurt in crash
A 27 YEAR-OLD farmer was seriously injured yesterday when his single-seater Turbulent aircraft crashed during an air display. More than 5,000 people at Shoreham Airport, Sussex, saw the pilot, Mr. Arnold Green, burst a balloon with the plane. Then he soared upwards and appeared to be trying to shake something from the plane's wings. Suddenly, the Turbulent dived and crashed upside down.

Dragged.
Mr. Green was dragged from the wreckage and taken to Worthing hospital with broken legs and chest injuries. Mr. Green, a married man with children, had been a member of an air display team for two years. His wife, who is expecting a baby in two months, was told of the crash last night at her home, Lee Farm, near Chelmsford, Essex."

The above report was the first edition, published in the early morning. Later editions of other newspapers confirmed that the pilot had died in hospital of his injuries ("Aberdeen Evening Express" - Monday 12 August 1968)

"Crash pilot dies
The pilot an aircraft which crashed front of 5,000 spectators during an air display at Shoreham Airport, died at Worthing Hospital today. Mr Arnold Green, 27, a farmer, of Lea Farm, Writtle, near Chelmsford, Essex, was piloting single-seater Turbulent aircraft which crashed on the grass airfield after taking part in balloon-bursting competition."

Registration G-ASDB cancelled by the CAA on 11.9.68 as "Destroyed"

1. Shoreham Airport Sussex - The Story of Britain's Oldest Licensed Airfield.
Compiled by T M A Webb and Dennis L . Bird.
Pub. Cirrus Associates, 1996
ISBN 0 9515598 2 6
page 84
2. Daily Mirror - Monday 12 August 1968
3. Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 12 August 1968
4. Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 12 August 1968
5. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ASDB.pdf
6. https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?79866-Rollason-Turbulent
7. G-ASDB at Rochester 14-7-68: https://www.airteamimages.com/druine-turbulent_G-ASDB_-private_268194.html
8. G-ASDB at Farnborough 11-9-64: https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Druine-Rollason-D-31-Turbulent/1579514
9. http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=14897.0
10. G-ASDB on 5-4-64: https://www.oldreigate.com/index.php?goto=picture_3893&prevurl=year1964
11. https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/5453825465/in/photolist-9iWhix
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_City_Airport#Post-Second_World_War

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-Jan-2010 12:28	slowkid	Added
22-Jan-2010 13:18	John Baker	Added
11-Dec-2011 13:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Registration, Cn, Location, Source]
27-Feb-2020 17:19	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
22-Jan-2021 17:48	Lance Shippey	Updated [Narrative]
12-Jun-2022 19:49	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, Damage, Narrative, Category]
12-Jun-2022 19:50	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]