ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 163304
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| Date: | Friday 26 July 1929 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.60X Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) |
| Registration: | G-CYYQ |
| MSN: | 487 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Shirleys Bay, Ottawa, Ontario -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Shirleys Bay, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
c/no. 487: DH.60X Moth Seaplane [Cirrus II #260]. Delivered to Canadian Ministry of Defence with C of A 1331 issued 10.3.28. Taken on charge by Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) as G-CYYQ 5.5.28.
Crashed 26.7.29 into Shirleys Bay, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Crashed in unknown circumstances. Both pilots were injured.
Struck off charge 14.11.29 as "damaged beyond repair".
Shirleys Bay is a bay of the Ottawa River, about sixteen kilometres (10 miles) from downtown Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. Budgetary concerns and the logistics of maintaining two airbases on either end of the city of Ottawa resulted in the Shirley’s Bay operations being moved to Rockcliffe in 1929. After only four years of operation, the seaplane base was closed and later demolished. Thus, the above incident was possibly the last aviation accident at Shirleys Bay
Sources:
1. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-C1.html
2. http://www.rwrwalker.ca/cab_detail_xa_zz.html
3. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh60x-moth-shirleys-bay-0
4. https://ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
5. Ottawa Citizen July 18 2014: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/andrew-king-seaplane-base-gave-shirleys-bay-key-role-in-canadas-aviation-history
6. http://www.pinecone.on.ca/MAGAZINE/stories/ShirleysBay.html
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirleys_Bay
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Jan-2014 18:36 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 30-Aug-2017 21:50 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 22-Jan-2018 19:38 | TB | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Nov-2022 19:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 30-Oct-2023 15:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [[Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category]] |
| 18-Dec-2023 17:09 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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