ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 80614
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| Date: | Tuesday 27 July 1965 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Champion 7GCBA |
| Owner/operator: | Airspray (Colchester) Ltd |
| Registration: | G-ASSN |
| MSN: | 14 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Boreham, Essex -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Boxted, Essex |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Fatal crash at Boreham, Essex, 27/7/65, whilst crop spraying. Aircraft was flying at very low altitude, failed to pull up in time, and crashed into the side of a building: "We found several old Tiger Moths in various states of repair/damage? A chap who was in one of the old hangars invited us to sit in one of the Tigers cockpits. As a young lad it was a very special moment. Now if I ever get near to an aircraft of that certain age I can smell that moment and am back as a 14 year old. (Oh that I could bottle it or put it in an aerosol?)
The chap that allowed us this privilege was a gentleman by the name of Percy Hatfield. He owned the company (Airspray) but tragically lost his life crop spraying not long after, in a crash in a Champion Challenger (G-ASSN I think it was).
Years later I found out that Percy had been the wartime pilot of a Catalina and it was he apparently who had found and tracked the Bismarck in the North Atlantic allowing it to later be crippled by Swordfish."
Registration cancelled as aircraft "destroyed" 27/7/65
Sources:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ASSN.pdf
https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/169517-smell-old-aircraft.html
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?91074-Airspray(Colchester)Ltd
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 11 July 1986 | N9574S | Air Plum Island | 0 | Newburyport, MA |  |
sub |
| 6 May 1990 | N5187T | Stewart Av Service | 0 | Scott, AR | |
sub |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Nov-2010 02:35 | VHKDK | Added |
| 11-Aug-2012 09:16 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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