ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 282262
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| Date: | Saturday 18 January 1992 |
| Time: | 11:45 |
| Type: |  Scheibe SF25B Falke |
| Owner/operator: | Carol Ann Simmonds (regd. owner) |
| Registration: | G-BMVA |
| MSN: | 46223 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Location: | near Aboyne Airfield, Dinnet, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Aboyne Airfield, Dinnet, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire |
| Aboyne Airfield, Dinnet, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire |
Scheibe SF25B Falke G-BMVA: Sustsained minor damage on 18 January 1992 when undershot on approach to Aboyne Airfield, Dinnet, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. The aircraft collided with a barbed wire perimeter fence 150 yards short of the airfield on final approach.
=Damage to airframe=
Per the AAIB Report "minor damage to the leading edges of both wings, and the underside of the fuselage"
=Registration History of G-BMVA=
28 July 1986: First UK registered as G-BMVA to an owner in Niederkruchnten, West Germany (ex-RAF Gliding & Soaring Association RAF GSA 512)
2 November 1987: Re-registered to a new owner at RAF Bruggen, Germany
9 July 1991: Re-registered to a new owner in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
31 August 1995: Crashed at Aboyne Airfield, Dinnet, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire for the second time (see link #2)
5 August 1997: Re-registered to a new owner in Chislehurst, Kent
14 April 2010: Re-registered to Kent Gliding Club, Squids Gate, Challock, Ashford, Kent
16 April 2014: Registration cancelled by CAA and airframe de-registered as "Permanently withdrawn from use"
By June 2017, G-BMVA was to be seen "planted" nose down as a target at the Combat Paintball Range at Thetford, Norfolk (see photo below)
Sources:
1. AAIB: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5422f414ed915d13710004d3/Scheibe_SF25B_Falke__G-BMVA_03-92.pdf
2. Crash 31/8/1995: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5423005f40f0b61342000989/Scheibe_SF25B_Falke__G-BMVA_10-95.pdf
3. https://www.airhistory.net/photo/348592/G-BMVA [photo]
4. https://www.combatpaintball.com/find-us
Media:
G-BMVA Scheibe SF-25B Falke @ Thetford 28/07/2018Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 31-Aug-2022 19:09 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
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