ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 19435
Last updated: 19 May 2013
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| Date: | 07-AUG-1948 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Taylorcraft Auster AOP.V |
| Operator: | Vernon Godfrey Manton |
| Registration: | G-AKWT |
| C/n / msn: | 998 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Tollerton, Nottinghamshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Tollerton EGBN |
| Tollerton EGBN |
Ex-RAF Auster AOP.V MT360: Military services with 19/56/486/80/181 Squadrons,121 Wing, then 175/26 Squadrons. Struck off charge when sold 22.3.48. To G-AKWT on 1.4.1948
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed at Tollerton, Nottinghamshire on 7.8.1948, Registrarion G-AKWT cancelled by the CAA 3.10.1948 as "withdrawn form use". However, the wreckage was reported as still being in storage at Carr Hall Farm, Thorney in April 2007 (presumably as a source of spares)
Sources:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AKWT.pdf
http://www.auster.ukf.net/p09.htm
http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=174
http://www.eurodemobbed.org.uk/locations.php?location=3425
http://www.austerclub.org/were1.htm
http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=889
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 03-Dec-2012 08:43 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
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