ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 20929
Last updated: 25 May 2013
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Date:01-MAY-1919
Time:0530
Type:Airco DH.9
Operator:Aircraft Transport & Travel
Registration: C6054
C/n / msn:
Fatalities:Fatalities: / Occupants:
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:Portsdown Hill, N of Portsmouth, Hampshire -   United Kingdom
Phase: En route
Nature:
Departure airport:Croydon
Destination airport:Bournemouth
Narrative:
Crashed, whilst performing the first civil flight to be made in a 'civilian' registered aircraft.
Note:Had been allocated registration G-EAAA, but not been taken up at time of accident.

Sources:
British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1999
Compiled by Michael Austen
Air Britain (Historians) Ltd 1999
ISBN 0 85130 281 5


Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
10-Jun-2008 19:52 JINX Added
11-Jun-2008 19:53 JINX Updated
23-Jan-2010 10:49 John Baker Updated [Source, Narrative]
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