Date:	Tuesday 14 February 1967
Time:	day
Type:	Brantly B.2A
Owner/operator:	Pontins Ltd
Registration:	G-ASHD
MSN:	314
Year of manufacture:	1963
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	River Colne, near Brightlingsea, Tendring, Essex -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Survey
Departure airport:	Clacton Airfield, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex (EGSQ)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
After departing Clacton 19.2.67 it ditched into River Colne near Brightlingsea, Tendring, Essex, and sank while filming the catamaran 'Lady Helmsman', which later rescued the occupants of G-ASHD. Wreck recovered by local fishermen and transferred to Farnborough by the Air Accident Investigation Branch for accident investigation.

1. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/misc/Brantly.pdf
2. Yorkshire Air News February 1967 p.11: https://magazines.airyorkshire.org.uk/1967%2002.pdf
3. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/G-ASHD.html
4. G-ASHD History 1963-1967: https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ASHD.pdf
5. https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=The_Avengers_(TV_Series)#Brantly_B-2A
6. http://www.dissolute.com.au/the-avengers-tv-series/cars/
7. https://www.helis.com/database/cn/44963/
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightlingsea

G-ASHD Brantly B.2A MSN 314 (C of R R.7844/1). Built Frederick, OK, 1963. Registered 2.4.63 to Pontin’s Ltd, Bournemouth, Hampshire and based at Hurn. Arrived London Air Port 24.4.63 as airfreight cargo. Displayed with Brantly B.2 G-ARVY at the Air Travel Fair at Biggin Hill 2.5.63 mounted on a box. Noted at Exeter 20.2.64 awaiting spares.

Attended the RAeS (Royal Aeronautical Society) Helicopter Meet at Dunsborough Park, Woking, Surrey 13.6.64. Noted as White Waltham-based in January 1966 for filming purposes. G-ASHD was briefly a TV star, when it appeared in fake RAF markings in an episode of the TV Series \"The Avengers\"; specifically, the episode \"What The Butler Saw\", filmed between 27.12.1965 and 7.1.1966, and first broadcast 25.1.66

Registration G-ASHD cancelled 22.6.67 as destroyed. Some components stored as spares at The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, by 3.90, where only the boom was noted 2.02.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Aug-2015 19:47	Dr. John Smith	Added
05-Aug-2015 21:11	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
05-Aug-2015 21:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
23-Sep-2024 06:10	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Category, ]
23-Sep-2024 06:11	ASN	Updated [Narrative, ]