ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 141538
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| Date: | Tuesday 13 September 1966 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide |
| Owner/operator: | Seychelles-Kilimanjaro Air Transport Ltd |
| Registration: | 5H-AAM |
| MSN: | 6492 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Temeke, Dar-es-Salaam -
 Tanzania
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Temeke, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
c/no.6492: Taken on charge by RAF as R9564 under Contract 26448/39 at 9 MU Cosford 26.5.40. To 3 Ferry Pilots Pool White Waltham 20.11.40. To De Havilland at Witney for maintenance 4.9.43; to 18 MU RAF Dumfries 6.12.43. To Kenley Station Flight 16.2.44. To Gatwick Station Flight 11.8.44. To DeHavilland at Witney for maintenance 24.7.45; to 18 MU Dumfries 1.4.46 for storage pending disposal.
Sold 9.12.47 to Air Enterprises Ltd, Gatwick. Registered G-AKOB (CofR 12089) 11.12.47 to Air Enterprises Ltd, Croydon. C of A 9964 issued 19.3.48. Former RAF Serial R9564 used as a c/no instead of the correct c/no 6492. Operated by Air Enterprises on services to Sandown, Isle of Wight with effect from 1.5.49; named "The Sandown Flyer". New C of R No R2264 issued in 1950. Cancelled 22.9.52 and re-registered 2.10.52 to Eagle Aviation Ltd, Luton (later Blackbushe). Delivered 10.9.53; cancelled 15.3.54 and re-registered 20.3.54 to Dragon Airways Ltd, Speke; named "Oboe Baker". UK Registration G-AKOB cancelled 30.11.55 as sold in Kenya ("Nairobi VP-KNS")
Re-registered as VP-KNS 2.12.55 (CofR 353) to East African Airways Corporation. Re-registered 6.7.60 (CofR 353A) to Seychelles-Kilimanjaro Air Transport Ltd, Nairobi. Re-registered in Tanzania as 5H-AAM in 1964 to same owner.
Destroyed by fire on start-up at Temeke, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania 13.9.66. Registration cancelled 31.1.67.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft R1000-R9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1980 page 58)
2. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AKOB.pdf
4. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/vp-kaa_&_sy-aaa.pdf
5. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1302520
6. http://derbosoft.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=history&action=print&thread=3394
7. http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/eastafrican/5h-fleet.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Jan-2012 03:20 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 19-Feb-2019 23:20 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
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