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Date: | 10-MAR-1929 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Simmonds Spartan |
Owner/operator: | Simmonds Aircraft Ltd |
Registration: | G-EBYU |
C/n / msn: | 1 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Location: | Farnham St. Martins, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Hamble, Hampshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Simmonds Spartan [Cirrus III]: G-EBYU registered [Cof R 1664] 23.6.28 to Oliver E Simmonds,Woolston, Southampton, Hampshire. First flight 7.28. C of A 1518 issued 18.7.28. Operated [8.28-10.28] by Isle of Purbeck Light Aeroplane Club,Worth Matravers, Swanage, Dorset. Re-registered [C of R 1809] 7.11.28 to Simmonds Aircraft Ltd, Hamble, Hampshire.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed Farnham St. Martins, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 10.3.29. Registration G-EBYU cancelled 3.29.
Sources:
1.
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-EBYU.pdf 2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simmonds_Spartan 3.
http://wight.hampshireairfields.co.uk/sim.html 4.
http://www.iaopa.eu/mediaServlet/storage/gamag/oct08/p36-38.pdf
Media:
Simmonds Spartan (G-EBYU), Croydon Aerodrome, 1928:

"Spartan-0830-1" by Flight - Flight, 6 September 1928. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Jan-2015 16:09 |
Dr. John Smith |
Added |
20-Jun-2018 23:59 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Departure airport, Embed code] |