Date:	Friday 10 September 1937
Time:	morning
Type:	Miles M.3A Falcon Major
Owner/operator:	Phillips & Powis Aircraft (Reading) Ltd
Registration:	G-AENG
MSN:	234
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Scarborough Castle, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Hatfield, Herfordshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
First registered (C of R 7319) 10.9.36 as G-AENG to Phillips & Powis Aircraft (Reading) Ltd., Woodley, Reading, Berkshire. C of A 5672 issued September 1936.

Written off (destroyed) when crashed against a wall due to hitting turbulence during Coronation Kings Cup air race on 10.9.37; crashed near Scarborough Castle, Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Both persons on board - Wing Commander Edward Goodwin Hilton DFC AFC (aged 41) and Wing Commander Percy Clark Sherren MC (Retired) (aged 44 and a Canadian national) - were killed. According to published sources (see link #5):

"On 10th September 1937 this Miles Falcon took off from Hatfield airfield for the 1,442 mile air-race around the Great Britain and Ireland called the "Kings Cup Air Race". The race would have taken two days to complete. Of the twenty seven aircraft taking part this year this Falcon was one of the last to take off at number twenty four in the queue.

The aircraft eventually flew north and made for Scarborough Castle as this was one the registration points it had to pass over. The aircraft was seen to fly out wider than the other aircraft had previously done that day over the headland, and at a height of 150 feet the aircraft suddenly became caught in severe turbulence. It was seen to roll badly and rise about fifty feet, it then failed to level out and then lost height. The aircraft then crashed next to Scarborough Castle Walls.

One of the two on board was thrown out of the aircraft just before impact, he was killed with this impact with the ground but his body then rolled off the cliff top and landed near a cafe on Marine Drive, 300 feet below. The other pilot was found in the wreckage and he also had been killed instantly. The aircraft had struck the ground nose/belly first and the engine broke off and had continued for another twenty five feet, the aircraft was destroyed in the crash though the number "24" was still visible in the wreckage. The Coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death on both men. It was reported that five other aircraft made forced landings during the race."

Pilot - Wing Commander Edward Goodwin Hilton AFC DFC, aged 41, of Felixstowe, England. Buried Ipswich New Cemetery, Suffolk.
Passenger - Wing Commander Percy Clark Sherren, MC and Bar, aged 44, of Crapaud, Prince of Wales Island, Canada. Buried Ipswich New Cemetery, Suffolk.

Registration G-AENG cancelled by the Air Ministry 2.12.37 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawal from use of aircraft"

1. El Litoral 10 September 1937, p2
2. Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW) Saturday 11 September 1937 Page 5 AIR RACE CRASH: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/193846767
3. New Yorks Times (New York, NY, USA) 11 September 1937: 2 DEAD IN BRITISH AIR RACE; Officers' Plane Crashes in King's Cup Competition: https://www.nytimes.com/1937/09/11/archives/2-die-in-british-air-race-officers-plane-crashes-in-kings-cup.html
4. Wairarapa Daily Times, (New Zealand) 11 September 1937, Page 5: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19370911.2.49
5. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (Newcastle, NSW) Saturday 11 September 1937 Page 11 TWO KILLED: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134950902
6. Entry for 11 September 1937: https://www.mhas.org.uk/assets/Roll-of-Honour/Roll-of-Honour-Uk-Commonwealth-Dominion-Casualties-MH-V2.2.pdf
7. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AENG.pdf
8. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A9.html
9. https://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/yorkshire/york37/aeng.html
10. http://web.archive.org/web/20160913214129/http://www.baaa-acro.com:80/1937/archives/crash-of-a-miles-m-38-falcon-major-in-scarborough-2-killed/
11. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-miles-m3b-falcon-major-scarborough-2-killed
12. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1937.htm
12. https://caspir.warplane.com/personnel/unit-search/p/600029934
13. https://www.islandregister.com/sherren/page118.html
14. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143005498/percy_clark-sherren
15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Castle

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-Oct-2016 17:46	TB	Added
20-Oct-2016 17:47	TB	Updated [Source, ]
20-Oct-2016 17:51	TB	Updated [Narrative, ]
03-Dec-2017 23:24	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
29-Jan-2018 19:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
19-May-2024 10:48	Nepa	Updated [Location, Operator, ]
06-Aug-2025 07:04	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source, Narrative, Category, ]