ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 30671
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| Date: | Thursday 4 March 1948 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Airspeed AS.65 Consul |
| Owner/operator: | United Air Services Ltd |
| Registration: | VR-TAR |
| MSN: | 5169 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Mombasa Airport, Mombasa -
 Kenya
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Dar-es-Salaan, Tanzania (DAR/HDTA) |
| Mombasa Airport, Mombasa, Kenya (MBA/HKMO) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Airspeed AS.65 Consul c/n 5169 ex-RAF Oxford HN713. First civil registered (Certificate of Registry 11657) as G-AJWT on 25.7.47 to Airspeed Ltd. Cancelled 29.8.47 and re-registered 4.9.47 to United Air Services Ltd, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika. Certificate of Airworthiness 9617 issued 4.9.47.
British Registration cancelled 19.4.48 as "transferred to Tanganyika register as VR-TAR". Registered VR-TAR 31.3.48 to United Air Services Ltd, Dar-es-Salaam.
Badly damaged in a crash landing at Mombasa Airport, Mombasa, Kenya 4.3.48 [reportedly still marked as G-AJWT]. Belly landed in Mombasa and slid for several yards before coming to rest. Both occupants were unhurt while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. Not repaired and scrapped in 1952
Sources:
1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/airspeed_oxford_&_consul.pdf
2. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-airspeed-as65-consul-mombasa
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AJWT.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 08-Dec-2011 04:23 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 03-May-2017 22:35 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Mar-2019 22:06 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
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