Incident de Havilland DH.60X Moth G-CARW,
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Date:Sunday 30 April 1933
Time:day
Type:Silhouette image of generic DH60 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
de Havilland DH.60X Moth
Owner/operator:London Flying Club Ltd
Registration: G-CARW
MSN: 611
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Strathburn, Southwest Middlesex, Ontario -   Canada
Phase: Landing
Nature:Private
Departure airport:London Airport, Lambeth, London, Ontario
Destination airport:
Narrative:
c/no. 611: DH.60X [Cirrus II] sold to DH Canada with C of A 1432 issued 31.5.28; delivered to DH Canada at Mount Dennis 21.6.28. Registered as G-CARW [C of R 422] 23.6.28 to J.B. Badgley & M. Lawson Williams, Montreal. Re-registered [C of R 547] 19.1.29 to Ottawa Flying Club, Ottawa. Damaged on landing Blackburn, Ontario 3.6.30.

Sold July 1930 to W.C. Cannon & J.R. Hamilton, Harrowsmith, Ontario. Sold again November 1930, rebuilt and re-registered 17.12.30 to Leavens Bros, Belleville, Ontario. Registration lapsed 14.1.32 as "withdrawn from use"; renewed 3.1.33. Sold January 1933 (but not re-registered) to London Airport Ltd. Re-registered [C of R 1241] 27.1.33 to London Flying Club Ltd, London, Ontario.

Badly damaged in forced landing with engine failure Strathburn, Southwest Middlesex, Ontario 30.4.33. Presumably written off (damaged beyond economic repair) as registration G-CARW cancelled 3.2.34.

Southwest Middlesex is a municipality in Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. The township includes the communities of Appin, Ekfrid, Glencoe, Lewis Corners, Macksville, Mayfair, Newbury Station, North Appin Station, North Ekfrid, North Glencoe Station, Riverside, Strathburn, Tait’s Corners, Wardsville and Woodgreen.

Sources:

1. British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1999
2. https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-canada-register/g-ca?highlight=WyJnLWNhcnciXQ==
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-C.html
4. http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh60.pdf
5. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh60x-moth-strathburn
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p006.html
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Middlesex,_Ontario#Communities
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_International_Airport#London_Airport,_1929%E2%80%931942

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
2 June 1930 G-CARW Ottawa Flying Club 0 c.1 mile North of Blackburn Hamlet, Innes Ward, Ontario sub

Location

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
31-Jan-2008 09:33 JINX Added
18-Jan-2014 21:58 Dr. John Smith Updated [Date, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
18-Jan-2014 22:00 Dr. John Smith Updated [Other fatalities]
25-Aug-2017 16:42 Dr. John Smith Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative]
22-Jun-2020 18:54 Sergey L. Updated [Source]
21-Nov-2023 15:58 Dr. John Smith Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category]

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