ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 63004
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| Date: | Saturday 19 December 1959 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Hiller UH-12B |
| Owner/operator: | Fison-Airwork Ltd |
| Registration: | G-APUH |
| MSN: | 744 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sahara Desert, near Setar -
 Tunisia
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | |
| Setar, Tunisia | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Built at Palo Alto in 1955. Briefly on the Swiss civil register as HB-XAN for one one month only (June 1955) for the ferry flight to Zurich. and first registered in Germany 27.6.55 as D-HABA. Sold to UK, and re-registered as G-APUH 14.5.59 to Fison-Airwork Ltd, Bourn, Cambridgeshire. C of A issued 29.5.59, and soon afterwards, shipped out to Sub-Saharan Africa for a crop spraying contract
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 19.12.59 when crashed in the Sahara Desert near Setar, Tunisia. Registration G-APUH cancelled 26.1.60 as aircraft "destroyed"
Sources:
1. http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-APUH.pdf
2. http://www.swissheli.com/history/hb-xan-tmp.htm
3. http://www.helionline.net/templates/sites/aaa_alz.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 10 April 1956 | D-HABA | Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS) | 0 | Bonn-Hangelar (EDKB) |  |
sub |
Media:
Hiller UH-12 G-APUH crop-spraying in Cambridgeshire in the summer of 1959
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 28-May-2014 23:39 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
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