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Date: | Saturday 26 May 1951 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Taylorcraft Auster AOP.V |
Owner/operator: | 61 Gp CF RAF |
Registration: | TW451 |
MSN: | 1781 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | RAF Kenley, Whyteleafe, Surrey, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | RAF Kenley, Whyteleafe, Surrey |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Auster AOP.5 TW451/"RCD-E", 61 Group Communications Flight, RAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when blown over on landing in gusty conditions at RAF Kenley, Whyteleafe, Surrey 26/5/51; Deemed damaged Beyond repair, and struck off charge.
Despite this, sold off for repairs/rebuild, and civil registered (C of R R.3532/1) as G-AMOR 24/01/1952 to Hants & Sussex Aviation, Portsmouth, Hampshire. UK civil registration cancelled 22/03/1952 when sold to Finland as OH-AUE (the first). Originally intended for sale to the Netherlands as PH-NER on 11/5/1952, but the sale fell through, and the registration PH-NER was cancelled on 2/5/1952. The registration PH-NER was later re-allocated to another Auster (c/no.1082, Ex-G-ALXZ, and RAF serial NJ689 before that)
NOTE: The Auster currently (2012) on the Finnish Civil register as OH-AUE is the second aircraft to carry that registration, and is a different aircraft - c/no 3734 (ex-Auster AOP.6 WJ373 and SE-ELE). OH-AUE (the first) was deleted from the Finnish Civil Register on 14/10/1969, and presumed scrapped. It is reported from Finland that parts were used in the repair of OH-AUA, c/no. 1556.
Sources:
1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.114 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft SA100-VZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983)
3. Last Take Off; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1950 to 1953 by Colin Cummings p.139
4.
http://austerhg.org/prod_list/pages.php?page=1680 5.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AMOR.pdf 6.
http://austerhg.org/gallery3/Auster-1243594292/Model_J/G-AMOR-MkV-TW451_-2 7.
https://www.hdekker.info/registermap/MN.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-May-2009 12:58 |
XLerate |
Added |
26-Apr-2013 01:14 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
06-May-2013 14:23 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location] |
05-Nov-2019 22:48 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
23-Jan-2021 23:02 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
10-Jul-2023 20:48 |
Nepa |
Updated [[Time, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]] |