ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18748
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| Date: | Sunday 5 July 1953 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide |
| Owner/operator: | Dragon Airways |
| Registration: | G-AIYP |
| MSN: | 6456 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Four Crosses/Nevin Rd, Pentreuchaf, 5 miles from Pwllheli, Wales -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Broom Hall, Chilwog, near Pwllheli, Gywnedd |
| Broom Hall, Chilwog, near Pwllheli, Gywnedd | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
c/no.6456: Taken on charge by RAF as P9589 under Contract 978450/39 at 10 MU 21.9.39. To 2 E&WS Yatesbury 13.12.39; renamed 2 Signals School 26.8.40. To 1 Signals School Cranwell 2.10.41.
Damaged 3.8.42; to De Havilland Witney for repairs 27.9.42; to 18 MU 21.1.43. To 15 Group Communications Flight, Speke 10.4.43. To De Havilland for major inspection and repairs 26.9.44; to 5 MU Kemble 6.12.44 for storage.
Sold 25.11.46 to Wing Commander Presland for RAF Flying Club. Registered as G-AIYP (C of R 11084) 9.12.46 to Wing Cdr W.H. Wetton t/a Garden Corner, London SW3. C of A 8806 issued 17.1.47. Cancelled 17.7.47 and re-registered 8.9.47 to Roy Walter Marsh, London WC2; believed operated by St Christopher Travelways Ltd, Croydon. Operated from 4.4.48 by Island Air Services on joy flights at Heathrow.
Cancelled 5.2.49 and re-registered 11.3.49 to Autowork (Winchester) Ltd, Winchester (actually based at Eastleigh, Southampton). Cancelled 24.3.50 and re-registered 29.3.50 to Vivian Hampson Bellamy t/a Flightways, Winchester (still based at Eastleigh). C of R No changed to R453 in 1950.
Cancelled 12.3.52 and re-registered 28.3.52 to Murray Chown Aviation Ltd, Staverton. Leased from 2.6.53 by Captain Morris A Guinane, t/a Dragon Airways; operated on behalf of Butlins Holiday Camp, Broom Hall, Chilwog, near Pwllheli, Gywnedd.
Crashed in fog 50 yds S of Four Crosses/Nevin Rd, Pentreuchaf, 5 miles from Pwllheli, Wales 5.7.53 and destroyed by fire; pilot (Captain Morris A Guinane) and 7 passengers uninjured. Registration cancelled 27.8.53 as destroyed
Sources:
1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AIYP-1.pdf
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AIYP-2.pdf
3. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh89a-dragon-rapide-pentreuchaf
4. http://derbosoft.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=history&action=print&thread=3394
5. http://www.ukairfieldguide.net/airfields/Broomhall
6. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1836063
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 01-Jan-2012 22:31 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 24-Feb-2019 23:08 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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