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| Date: | Monday 4 December 1933 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Simmonds Spartan |
| Owner/operator: | Aero Services Pty Ltd |
| Registration: | ZS-ADP |
| MSN: | 60 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sea off Cape Town, Western Cape Province -
 South Africa
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Germinston, South Africa |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Spartan Three-seater [Hermes II] G-ABPZ registered [C of R 3385] 30.9.31 to Skywork Ltd; operated by The Spartan Air Circus, South Africa. C of A 3226 issued 7.10.31. UK Registration G-ABPZ cancelled 7.11.32 as sold.
Registered in South Africa ZS-ADP [C of R 95] May 1932 to Aero Services Pty Ltd, Germiston.
Written off (destroyed) when crashed in sea off Cape Town, Western Cape Province, 4.12.33. South African registration ZS-ADP cancelled 12.12.33
Sources:
1. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/76-register-gb-g-ab
2. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ABPZ.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A3.html
4. http://wight.hampshireairfields.co.uk/sim.html
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20151002205515/http://www.baaa-acro.com/1933/archives/crash-of-a-simmonds-spartan-in-cape-town/
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_ZS-.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Dec-2017 21:28 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 13-Jan-2022 11:36 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
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