This information is added by users of ASN. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information.
If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can
submit corrected information.
Date: | Friday 3 March 1961 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.90A Dragonfly |
Owner/operator: | Ronald Malcolm Wilson |
Registration: | G-AEWZ |
MSN: | 7555 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Birmingham Airport, Elmdon, Warwickshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Birmingham Airport, Elmdon, Birmingham (BHX/EGBB) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:c/no 7555 (Gipsy Major #8789/8790): Registered as G-AEWZ [C of R 7805/1] 10.4.37 to Air Service Training Ltd, Hamble, Hampshire. C of A 5971 issued 9.7.37. Operated by 3 E&RFTS and (with effect from 1.11.39) 11 AONS Hamble (later Watchfield). Registration cancelled by Secretary of State 10.1.41. Impressed into military service as DJ716 10.1.41 and remained operated by 11 AONS (fitted with GM #8789/A305329 & #8790/A305328).
To 10 MU 19.3.41. Crashed 8.7.41; repaired and to 39 MU 29.8.41; (now fitted with GM #8675/A215614 & #8565/A194515). Issued 30.11.41 to Short Bros Ltd, Rochester; delivered from RAF Colerne to Boscombe Down 30.11.41; on to Rochester 11.12.41. Sold 30.5.46 to Short Bros (R&B) Ltd. Registered (C of R R7085/2) as G-AEWZ 30.5.46 to Short Bros (Rochester & Bedford) Ltd and operated by Rochester Air Charter Service, Rochester. C of A renewed 23.8.46. Cancelled 1.1.48 and re-registered (C of R 7805/3) 12.1.48 to Short Bros & Harland Ltd, operated by Rochester Air Charter Service, Rochester. Damaged on landing at Liege, Belgium 9.2.48; repaired on site.
Cancelled 16.12.48 and re-registered (C of R 7805/4) on 20.12.48 to Frederick Thomas Bingham; operated by Southampton Flying Services Ltd/Hampshire School of Flying, Eastleigh, Hampshire. (By 2.49; fitted with Gipsy Major #8565 & 8787). Cancelled 14.6.49 and re-registered (C of R 7805/5) on 23.6.49 to Vivian Hampson Bellamy, t/a Flightways, Eastleigh, Hampshire.
Cancelled and re-registered (C of R 7805/6, later R 1828/6) on 19.7.50 to Silver City Airways Ltd, Eastleigh/Blackbushe, Hampshire. Cancelled 26.5.60 and re-registered 9.6.60 (back) to Vivian Hampson Bellamy, Eastleigh, Hampshire (C of R 1828/7).
Cancelled 4.10.60 and re-registered (C of R 1828/8) 7.10.60 to Ronald Malam Wilson, Coventry, operated by Devonair Ltd/Coventry Flying & Country Club, Baginton.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when ground-looped on take-off at Birmingham Airport, Elmdon, Warwickshire 3.3.61. Wreck recovered to Baginton, Coventry, but repairs abandoned. Registration G-AEWZ cancelled 30.7.64 as PWFU ("Permanently Withdrawn From Use") (Notified to Air Ministry 30.7.64 to but retrospectively applied with effect from 3.61).
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft DA100-DZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain)
2.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH90.pdf 3.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p075.html 4.
https://www.airteamimages.com/de-havilland-dragonfly_G-AEWZ_-private_98161.html 5.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AEWZ-1.pdf 6.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AEWZ-2.pdf 7.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AEWZ-3.pdf 8.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh90-dragonfly-birmingham 9.
https://www.orpheusweb.co.uk/vicsmith/Accidents/Jul41.html 10. National Archives (PRO Kew) File DR 16/123:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1200688 11.
https://www.airteamimages.com/de-havilland-dragonfly_G-AEWZ_-private_98161_large.html [G-AEWZ at Kidlington, Oxfordshire in 1960]
12.
https://www.airhistory.net/photo/16459/G-AEWZ [G-AEWZ at Blackbushe, Hampshire 5.6.53]
13.
https://aflyinghistory.com/search-aeroplane-photographs?query=G-AEWZ [G-AEWZ at Le Touqet, France in 1955]
14.
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/G-AEWZ?f=&sort=date_taken_formatted&order=desc [G-AEWZ various photos 1949-1958]
Media:
G-AEWZ at Blackbushe, Hampshire 5.6.53:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-May-2008 11:10 |
ASN archive |
Added |
03-Jul-2009 05:23 |
VHKDK |
Updated |
21-Mar-2010 13:31 |
TB |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Nature] |
26-Oct-2013 00:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
04-Jan-2017 17:28 |
TB |
Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
04-Jan-2017 17:31 |
TB |
Updated [Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source] |
28-Oct-2017 21:42 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
03-Feb-2018 22:36 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Total occupants, Location, Source] |
28-Mar-2022 12:15 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Total occupants, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
15-Nov-2022 20:02 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total occupants, Phase, Source, Embed code, Narrative, Category] |
15-Nov-2022 20:05 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Embed code, Narrative] |
15-Nov-2022 20:08 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Departure airport, Source, Embed code] |
16-Nov-2022 19:09 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |